Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment
通过马拉维青少年女孩的实验，比较无条件现金转移与有条件现金转移的效果，发现无条件转移在降低辍学率上效果较弱，但能显著减少少女怀孕和早婚。
This article assesses the role of conditionality in cash transfer programs using a unique experiment targeted at adolescent girls in Malawi. The program featured two distinct interventions: unconditional transfers (UCT arm) and transfers conditional on school attendance (CCT arm). Although there was a modest decline in the dropout rate in the UCT arm in comparison with the control group, it was only 43% as large as the impact in the CCT arm at the end of the 2-year program. The CCT arm also outperformed the UCT arm in tests of English reading comprehension. However, teenage pregnancy and marriage rates were substantially lower in the UCT than the CCT arm, entirely due to the impact of UCTs on these outcomes among girls who dropped out of school. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.