The Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers for Political ...

The Global South, and particularly Latin America, experienced a remarkable expansion in conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in the last fifteen years.

Do Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Electoral Behavior? Evidence ...

The evidence comes from the randomized component of Progresa, the pioneering Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program. Experimental data show that early ...

Assessing the Political Impacts of a Conditional Cash Transfer

... conditional cash transfers may be necessary to sustain the political will for such programs. Indonesia is an excellent setting to test our hypotheses, as no ...

Conditional Cash Transfers, Resources, and Political Participation in ...

I argue that CCTs boost political participation through resource effects, and that both the cash transfers and the conditionalities play an important role.

Conditional Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a prominent poverty reduction and social protection tool in many developing countries. Impact evaluations of these ...

Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior

The study observed the impact of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Accion (FA), on intent to vote, turnout, and ...

Long-Term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers - Oxford Academic

Numerous evaluations of CCTs, many based on experimental designs, find positive short-term impacts. These include current poverty alleviation, ...

The Effect of Conditional Cash Transfers on Beneficiary Political ...

The Participating Poor: The Effect of Conditional Cash Transfers on Beneficiary Political Participation.

The Unintended Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfer ...

I argue that while CCTs may have positive economic effects, they can also trigger social discord, criminal predation, and political conflict and, in doing so, ...

Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting ...

dential election. The results, however, show that voters respond to targeted transfers and that these transfers can foster support for incumbents, thus ...

The Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers in Four Presidential ...

An increase in one percentage point of coverage implies a decrease in one percentage point in non-coverage; thus, in effect the increase in coverage implies ...

Full article: The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers

This paper explores the consequences of CCT knowledge politics in rural Indonesia. It argues that CCT practices of knowing and measuring have paradoxical ...

Do anti-poverty policies sway voters? Evidence from a meta ...

Since the 1990s, many governments in middle and low-income countries have used conditional cash transfers to alleviate poverty.

understanding the end of Conditional Cash Transfers in Mexico

by Viviana Ramírez and Ricardo Velázquez Leyer In our recent article published in Policy & Politics, we investigated The impact of ...

Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Accion, on intent to vote, turnout and electoral ...

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Poverty, Inequality ...

Absent the policy, adverse shocks would have been significant and are likely to occur once the transfer is interrupted. We also observe that the ...

Impact Evaluation and Political Economy: What Does the ...

Impact Evaluation and Political Economy: What Does the “Conditional” in “Conditional Cash Transfers” Accomplish? ... Some economists, with their ...

The impact of conditional cash transfers on public education ...

CCT may affect the choice of tax rate by altering the identity and/or the income level of the pivotal voter. Our simulation results explain the increase in ...

Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

Conditional cash transfers provide income and promote human capital investments. Yet evaluating their longitudinal impacts is hard, as most experimental ...

The politics of Conditional Cash Transfers in Colombia and Brazil

This criticism does not imply a denial of some poverty alleviation results (based on official and unofficial impact evaluations). However, it ...