Designing and Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Some Methodological
Aspects. 19 January 2010, 5.00pm, at the Royal Statistical Society.
Speakers:
Dr Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Institute of Fiscal Studies and UCL Department of Economics,
University College London.
Timothy Powell-Jackson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Discussant:
Professor Armando Barriento Professor and Research Director, Brooks World Poverty
Institute, University of Manchester.
Conditional Cash Transfer programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs
conditional upon the receivers' actions. These programs offer poor families regular sums of
cash via a social contract with the beneficiaries - for example, sending children to school
regularly or bringing them to health centres. The seminar will focus on some methodological
aspects of conditional cash transfer programs. Dr Marcos Vera-Hernandez will focus on two
methodological issues: (1) whether the unit of treatment should be the household or the
village; and (2) the challenges faced in quantifying the contribution of the conditionality to the
final outcome. Timothy Powell-Jackson will review the methods used to evaluate conditional
cash transfer programs, with a view to examining to what extent these different methods help
us in understanding how such programs work. Professor Armando Barriento will be the
discussant.
Attendance is free but pre-registration is recommended. You can register by email:
[log in to unmask] or by phone (020) 7638 8998. For a map and directions see
www.rss.org.uk/findus. We anticipate the seminar will finish at around 7 pm.
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