The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the BrazilianFavelas

This paper experimentally analyzes the schooling decisions of poor households in urban Brazil. We elicit parents’ choices between monthly government transfers conditional on their adolescent child attending school and guaranteed, unconditional transfers of varying sizes. In the baseline treatment, a...

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Published in:	The Journal of political economy Vol. 120; no. 3; pp. 359 - 397
Main Authors:	Bursztyn, Leonardo, Coffman, Lucas C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Chicago Press 01-06-2012
Subjects:	Adults Cash transfers Cell phones Children Conditional cash transfer programs Household income Parents School age children School attendance Text messages
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