CCT Reading Group

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are among the most efficient government interventions to fight against poverty and its intergenerational traps around the world. In this reading group we aim to study both theoretical and empirical research papers published in top economic journals such as AER, JLE, JDE and others.
We hope that at the end of this reading group, regular participants gain good understanding of the following concepts:

1)Advantages and disadvantages of conditional versus unconditional transfers

2)Techniques to evaluate polices:

a)Ex-ante policy evaluation methods

b)Ex-post policy evaluation methods

3)Randomized Treatment Control (RCT)

Time: Sundays, 12:30 - 13:30

Place: CLASS 2

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Presenter
Paper
Summary
Date
Hosein Joshaghani Parker and Todd (2017) JEL, Conditioanl Cash Transfers:
The Case of Progresa/Oportunidades		 1396/7/16
Pooya Rashidi Attanasio and Kaufmann (2014) JDE, Education choices and returns to schooling:
Mothers' and youths' subjective expectations and their role by gender		 1396/7/23
Hamidreza Aziminia Gahvari and Mattos (2007) AER, Conditional Cash Transfers, Public Provisions of Private Goods, and Income Redistribution 1396/7/30
Aref Sadeghi Duflo and Kermer (2005) Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
Athey and Imbens(2017) JEP, The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation		 1396/8/7
Salman Farajnia Todd and Wolpin (2006) AER, Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico: Using a Social Experiment to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility 1396/8/14
Fatemeh Asghari Attanasio, Meghir, and Santiago (2012) RES, Education choices in Mexico:
using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa		 1396/8/21
Mohammadreza Farajpour Coady and Parker (2004) RES, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Demand- and Supply-Side Education Interventions: The Case of PROGRESA in Mexico 1396/9/5
Nooshin Esmaeil khanian Behrman, Parker, and Todd (2012) JHR, Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits? A Five-Year Followup of PROGRESA/Oportunidades 1396/9/12
Mohammadreza Farajpour McKee, Douglas, and Todd (2011) , The Longer-Term Effects of Human Capital Enrichment Programs on Poverty and Inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico
DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) ECMA, Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973–1992: A Semiparametric Approach		 1396/9/19
Mitra Hoseinpoor Gertler (2004) AER, Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA’s Control Randomized Experiment 1396/9/26
Fatemeh Asghari Andalón (2011) HE, Oportunidades to Reduce Overweight and Obesity in Mexico? 1396/10/10