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Education and Child Labor: Experimental Evidence from a Nicaraguan Conditional Cash Transfer Program
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2009
Child Labor and Education in Latin America
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The Red de Protección Social (RPS) is a conditional cash program, modeled after PROGRESA, to reduce both current and future poverty via cash transfers to households living in extreme poverty in rural Nicaragua. This chapter examines the education-and child labor-related effects of the program, presenting results from a randomized community-based trial. The evidence demonstrates that RPS had a significant and substantial effect on schooling matriculation and enrollment during its first year of
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