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1 December 2017
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No. 077

The Impact of Cash Transfers on Child Outcomes in Rural Thailand: Evidence from a Social Pension Reform

Tabea HerrmannAttakrit LeckcivilizeJuliane Zenker

Abstract

Unlike standard literature on the social pension policy and children's outcomes, this paper provides evidence from Thailand that an introduction of small (equivalent to 2–3 days of minimum wage) but universally covered social pension can affect educational choice and work status of children living with eligible pensioners. Such a result seems to be driven by the characteristics of newly eligible pensioners who are not as poor as the pensioners under the targeted program before the reform. Our findings also show differential effects of the social pension by genders of the children and pensioners. In particular, teenage boys living with male pensioners are more likely to enroll in the secondary school compared to children in the control group living with almost eligible seniors, while the results for teenage girls are rather inconclusive.

Tabea Herrmann
Tabea Herrmann
Attakrit Leckcivilize
Attakrit Leckcivilize
University of Aberdeen
Juliane Zenker
Juliane Zenker
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JEL: J14J24D13H55
Tags: cash transfersocial pension reformeducation
The views expressed in this workshop do not necessarily reflect the views of the Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research or the Bank of Thailand.
Tabea Herrmann
Tabea Herrmann
Attakrit Leckcivilize
Attakrit Leckcivilize
University of Aberdeen
Juliane Zenker
Juliane Zenker

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