Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

Nur Cahyadi, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken, Rizal Prima, Elan Satriawan and Ekki Syamsulhakim

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 88-110

Abstract: Conditional cash transfers provide income and promote human capital investments. Yet evaluating their longitudinal impacts is hard, as most experimental evaluations treat control locations after a few years. We examine such impacts in Indonesia after six years, where the program rollout left the experiment largely intact. We find static effects on many targeted indicators: childbirth using trained professionals increased dramatically, and under-15 children not in school fell by half. We observe impacts requiring cumulative investments: stunting fell by 23 percent. While human capital accumulation increased, the transfers did not lead to transformative economic change for recipient households.

JEL-codes: I21 I38 J13 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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