The impact of the JUNTOS conditional cash transfer programme on foundational cognitive skills

Does age of enrollment matter?

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 2 September 2022

• Country: Peru
• Document Type: Working Paper
• Theme: Education
• Authors: Scott, D., Lopez, J, Sánchez, A. and Behrman, J.R.

Abstract

This paper studies the relationship between the age of enrolment in Peru’s conditional cash transfer programme, JUNTOS, and the foundational cognitive skills of a sample of children aged between 5 and 12 years old. Using a difference-in-differences approach and exploiting within-household variation, we show that younger siblings in recipient households display significantly higher levels of inhibitory control than their older counterparts (0.11 standard deviations), having benefited from the programme for the first time at a relatively earlier age.

This is an output of the Young Lives at Work programme

Citation

Scott, D., Lopez, J., Sánchez, A., Behrman, J.R. (2022). “The impact of the conditional cash transfer programme JUNTOS on foundational cognitive skills: Does age of enrollment matter?” University of Pennsylvania, PIER working paper 22-019

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The impact of the conditional cash transfer programme JUNTOS on foundational cognitive skills: Does age of enrollment matter?

Published 2 September 2022