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Women's Power, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Schooling in Nicaragua

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dc.creator Gitter, Seth R.
dc.creator Barham, Bradford L.
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:12:37Z
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:12:37Z
dc.date 2008-05-30
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-18T19:41:11Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-18T19:41:11Z
dc.identifier World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier 1564-698X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4480
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/249965
dc.description The Social Safety Net (Red de Protección Social, RPS) program in Nicaragua is one of many conditional cash transfer programs that pay households cash stipends in exchange for school attendance and regular visits to health clinics by the children. A key feature is that payments go to the female head of household. Previous research suggests that exogenous transfers to women are more likely to be spent on their children's health, nutrition, and education and thus to reinforce the goals of these programs. Randomized experimental data from RPS are used to test for heterogeneous program impacts on school enrollment and spending based on a woman's power, as proxied by her years of schooling relative to her husband's years of schooling. The results confirm previous findings that more household resources are devoted to children when women are more powerful. However, when a woman's power greatly exceeds her husband's, additional female power reduces school enrollment. RPS impacts on schooling are much larger than the expected income effects estimated from the control group, although no evidence is found that female power alters the impact of RPS on school enrollment. The conditionality of RPS is probably decisive. While RPS significantly increases food and education expenditures, the impact is attributable primarily to income effects.
dc.publisher World Bank
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights World Bank
dc.subject children
dc.subject education
dc.subject education expenditures
dc.subject enrollment
dc.subject groups
dc.subject nutrition
dc.subject participation
dc.subject school attendance
dc.subject schooling
dc.subject women
dc.title Women's Power, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Schooling in Nicaragua
dc.type Journal Article
dc.type Journal Article
dc.coverage Uruguay
dc.coverage Nicaragua


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