arbiter
JournalsPricingAccount

Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer program

Fernando Borráz & Nicolás González Pampillón

Latin American Journal of Economics2009https://doi.org/10.4067/s0717-68212009000200006article
ABDC C
Weight
0.69

What the paper says

We analyze the impact of conditional cash payments on school enrollment, child labor and labor supply implemented between 2005 and 2007 to the poorest Uruguayan households. Targeting income discontinuities are not observed around the thresholds to participate in the program and this result invalidates the use of regression discontinuity designsfor evaluating causal effects of the intervention. We apply the propensity score matching estimator to account for the endogenity of program participation. We find that the program has no impact on school attendance but reduces female child labor in Montevideo. In addition negative effects are detected on the labor market in the rest of the urban areas.

59 citations

Open paper page →

Cite this paper

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4067/s0717-68212009000200006

Or copy a formatted citation

@article{fernando2009,
  title        = {{Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer program}},
  author       = {Fernando Borráz & Nicolás González Pampillón},
  journal      = {Latin American Journal of Economics},
  year         = {2009},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4067/s0717-68212009000200006},
}

Paste directly into BibTeX, Zotero, or your reference manager.

Flag this paper

Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer program

Flags are reviewed by the Arbiter methodology team within 5 business days.

Evidence weight

0.69

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.94 × 0.4 = 0.37
M · momentum0.63 × 0.15 = 0.09
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

† Text relevance is estimated at 0.50 on the detail page — for your query’s actual relevance score, open this paper from a search result.