The effects of unconditional cash transfers on the home environment in Ecuador
- Authors
- Palacios, Juan Carlos
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
Cash transfers have been increasingly popular in Latin American countries as policies aiming poverty alleviation and long run human capital accumulation. Ecuador has also implemented such policy and much interest lies in finding out whether the policy has any positive effect on people?s well being. In this thesis, I analyse if households that receive the transfer offer a better environment for children?s development using a randomize experiment of the transfer. I propose different techniques of estimation ranging from OLS to propensity score matching-difference in differences and analyse the validity of each technique given the conditions of the data and the cash transfer program. I find a significant improvement in the environment for children in the treated households based on the interaction between parents and children. Nevertheless, no much improvement is found in other analysed dimensions.
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- BONO DE DESARROLLO HUMANO
HOME ENVIRONMENT
IMPACT EVALUATION
INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES
FIXED EFFECTS
PANEL DATA ESTIMATION
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- openAccess