The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers in Tanzania

David Evans, Charles Gale () and Katrina Kosec
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Charles Gale: Harvard Graduate School of Education

No 563, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: Cash transfers boost educational outcomes for poor children on average, but which aspects of educational performance are most responsive and which poor children benefit the most? This study examines the educational impacts of cash transfers, drawing on a randomized, community implemented conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor households in Tanzania. On average, being assigned to receive transfers significantly improves children’s likelihood of having ever attended school (by between 4 and 5 percentage points), with suggestive evidence that this is driven by more age-appropriate enrollment for the youngest children. However, school attendance and primary school completion remain unaffected on average. Girls and boys benefit similarly, and only students with stronger initial educational performance experience increases in primary completion rates.

Keywords: cash transfers; education; Tanzania; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I21 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2020-12-17, Revised 2022-07-01
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