TY  - GEN
AU  - Stampini, Marco
AU  - Martinez-Cordova, Sofia
AU  - Insfran, Sebastian
AU  - Harris, Donna Oretha
TI  - Do Conditional Cash Transfers Lead to Better Secondary Schools?: Evidence from Jamaica's PATH
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/11/03
DO  - 10.18235/0010663
AB  - We explored the hypothesis that the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), Jamaica's conditional cash transfer program, contributes to breaking the inter-generational poverty cycle by placing its urban beneficiaries on a higher educational trajectory. Using a regression discontinuity design, we found that PATH urban male beneficiaries who sat the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) over the period 2010-2014 performed better on the test (scoring 16.03 points, or 3.6%, higher than non-beneficiaries); consequently, they were placed in better secondary schools (1.5 percentiles higher in a national school ranking based on placed students' GSAT scores). In contrast, we found no significant impact for urban girls.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0010663
ER  -