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The effect of cash transfer programs on educational mobility, PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205957 10/2018. Status: Published
AbstractIn this paper I develop a model to reproduce the phenomenon of high intergenerational correlations
in education observed in Latin American Countries. The model is based on empirical
evidence and implemented through agent based modeling techniques. The effect of
conditional cash transfer programs on educational mobility is then analyzed. The results
suggest that conditional cash transfer program can substantially increase intergenerational
mobility in education. I find that using parental education as eligibility criterion and adapting
the subsidies to the income level can improve the efficiency of a program in increasing educational
mobility as compared to a purely income based program.
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