Cash and Change: A Replication and Further Analysis of a Cash Transfer Experiment in Malawi
复制并扩展了一项马拉维现金转移实验，发现无条件现金转移在提高入学率和降低早婚方面优于有条件转移，但对早孕的影响因教育阶段而异。
ABSTRACT Cash or Condition is one of the few papers using a randomized control trial to directly compare the effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfers (CCTs and UCTs). Limited to the data made publicly available, I first conduct a narrow replication and find that the results that can be reproduced are largely similar to the original study. However, these results alone would lead us to the opposite conclusion from that in the paper and would indicate that UCTs are more effective at increasing school enrollment and attendance, as well as pregnancy and marriage, implying that UCTs are generally superior to CCTs for these outcomes. Widening the analysis to consider primary and secondary school girls separately, I find that while the UCT decreases the likelihood of early marriage for girls in both levels, its effect on early pregnancy is concentrated on primary school girls—even though households with secondary school girls received larger transfers.