Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers : Enrollment, Spillover Effects And Instructional Quality

Abstract

The Impact Evaluation Series has been established in recognition of the importance of impact evaluation studies for World Bank operations and for development in general.The series serves as a vehicle for the dissemination of findings of those studies.Papers in this series are part of the Bank's Policy Research Working Paper Series.The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly.The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors.They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. Policy Research Working Paper 5257This paper considers the effects of a gender-targeted conditional cash transfer program for girls in classes 6 to 8. It finds that the program is successful in increasing the enrollment of girls in classes 6 to 8 as intended.It also finds evidence to suggest that the program generated positive spillover effects on the enrollment of boys.This success does, however, appear to be poised to come at This paper-a product of the Poverty and Gender Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector of the Latin America and Caribbean Region-is part of a larger effort in the department to evaluate the evaluate the impact of social programs.Policy Research Working Papers are also posted on the Web at http://econ.worldbank.org.The author may be contacted at ahasan1@worldbank.org.a cost.The student-teacher ratio in treated districts is also climbing.This suggests that in the absence of active steps to address these increasing student-teacher ratios, instructional quality is likely to suffer.The success of the program appears to be driven by enrollment increases in urban schools.This suggests the need for a reassessment of the targeting criteria in rural schools.

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