Elan Satriawan
National Team for Acceleration of
Poverty Reduction (TNP2K)
Grand Kebon Sirih Building, 4th floor
Jl Kebon Sirih no 35
Jakarta 10110, INDONESIA
E-Mail: esatriawan@ugm.ac.id
Institutional Affiliations: Department of Economics, Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universitas Gadjah Mada
Information about this author at RePEc
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| May 2018 | Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
with Nur Cahyadi, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Rizal Adi Prima, Ekki Syamsulhakim: w24670
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide, and are designed to promote comprehensive human capital investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and continuing through incentivizing school attendance. Yet evaluating these claims over more than a few years is hard, as most CCT experiments extend the program to the control group after a short experimental period. This paper experimentally estimates the impacts of Indonesia’s cash transfer program (PKH) six years after the program launched, using data from about 14,000 households in 360 sub-districts across Indonesia, taking advantage of the fact that treatment and control locations remained largely intact throughout the period. We find that PKH con... |
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