School Enrollment in Ecuador and the role of the Human Development Bonus
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https://doi.org/10.25097/rep.n33.2021.05Keywords:
Conditional cash transfers, school enrollment, discontinuity regression design.Abstract
This article analyzes the impact of the Human Development Bonus (HDB) on school enrollment using a Discontinuous Regression approach, estimated with data from the Ecuadorian National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment (ENEMDU) from December 2009. The results indicate that there are no significant effect of the HDB on school enrollment, considering primary and secondary attendance, and also the overall school attendance. One possible explanation of these findings is the weak (or non-existent) follow-up and compliance monitoring of the beneficiary households to send their children to educational institutions. There is also evidence of the need and importance to carry out periodic impact evaluations for these social programs, to account for effects in the medium and long run, and to improve its implementation, monitoring and focalization.
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