School attendance information or conditional cash transfer? Evidence from a randomized field experiment in rural Bangladesh

• Main Authors: FUJII, Tomoki, HO, Christine, RAY, Rohan, SHONCHOY, Abu S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Attendance Information; Conditional Cash Transfers; Cost-Effectiveness; Secondary Education; Gender; Rural Bangladesh; Econometrics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2666; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3665/viewcontent/v6.1.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Low school attendance remains an important challenge in resource-poor settings with cash and information constraints. We compare conditional cash transfer (CCT) treatments with framing variations (gain and loss) against attendance information treatment as interventions to address these constraints i...