Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto

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In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the likelihood of school enrolment but has no sizeable effect on the incidence of child labour. The results are in line with theoretical models that predict that if leisure and schooling decisions are substitutes, a school incentive will have either positive or neutral effects on child labour. Our findings support previous evidence that schooling and work decisions are not perfect substitutes among children.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-478-0
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2018/36

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Economic Development ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Latin America; Caribbean
• Subject: Bolivia ; child labour ; conditional cash transfers ; schooling

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Canelas, Carla ; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2018/478-0
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/190085
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET