Ex Ante impact of conditional cash transfer program on school attendance and poverty

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have been regarded as an effective way to reconcile safety nets-or more generally social assistance policies-with investments in human development benefitting the poor. Simply handing over cash to poor families will not be sufficient to tackle poverty in the long run. Hence, the idea is to transfer cash to the poor “on condition” that the poor will commit to empower themselves and help to bring future generations of poor families out of poverty.