Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126510 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 368
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven
Abstract: 
The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise of a CCT has no effect on increasing high school matriculation for the average disadvantages student. We do find, however, that providing the CCT increases high school matriculation among the subset of disadvantaged students who overestimate the direct costs of attending hich school.
Subjects: 
Conditional Cash Transfer
Voucher
Rural Education
Dropout
High School
Randomized Controlled Trial
China
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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