Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education
在摩洛哥农村进行的大规模随机实验表明，一项不附带条件但明确标注为教育支持的“标签式现金转移”显著提高了儿童入学率，且增加条件性或将支付对象改为母亲几乎未带来额外效果。
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a “labeled cash transfer” (LCT): a small cash transfer made to fathers of school-aged children in poor rural communities, not conditional on school attendance but explicitly labeled as an education support program. We document large gains in school participation. Adding conditionality and targeting mothers made almost no difference in our context. The program increased parents' belief that education was a worthwhile investment, a likely pathway for the results.