Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia

We are grateful to the Metropolitan Police of Medellín for providing us access to all criminal data, to the DNP for providing us access to the SISBEN datasets, to Minister of education for providing us access to SPADIES, to the secretary of education of Medellin for proving us access to education records, and to the DPS for providing us access to the Familias en Acción administrative data. Manuela Cardona-Badillo, Gabriel Suarez, Sara Londoño, Silvia Granados, Estefania Saravia and Laura Prada provided excellent research assistance. The opinions expressed herein belong to the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Banco de la República or its Board of Directors. Costas Meghir is grateful to the Cowles foundation and to the ISPS at Yale for financial support. All errors and opinions are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.