Show simple item record

Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

dc.rights.licenseopenen_US
dc.contributor.authorAYGÜN, Aysun Hızıroğlu
dc.contributor.authorKIRDAR, Murat Güray
dc.contributor.authorKOYUNCU, Murat
hal.structure.identifierBordeaux Sciences Economiques [BSE]
dc.contributor.authorSTOEFFLER, Quentin
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-25T12:48:58Z
dc.date.available2024-03-25T12:48:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-11
dc.identifier.issn0304-3878en_US
dc.identifier.urioai:crossref.org:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103266
dc.identifier.urihttps://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/188959
dc.description.abstractEnThis paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the world's largest cash transfer program for refugees, the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN). We exploit a program eligibility criterion to identify the causal impacts of the ESSN program using a regression discontinuity design. The results show a large effect on child labor and school enrollment among both male and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0% to 1.6% (a decrease of 88%) and the fraction of children aged 6–17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7% (a reduction of 62%). By unpacking the mechanisms at play, we show that ESSN cash transfers become a significant part of a household's income, substantially alleviate extreme poverty, and reduce a family's need to resort to harmful coping strategies. Investigating the reasons for children not attending school, we find that the beneficiary households become more likely to send children to school because the cash transfer addresses both the opportunity cost and direct cost of schooling—although the former channel is more important. The findings have important implications for the design of policies aimed at supporting refugee children at scale.
dc.language.isoENen_US
dc.sourcecrossref
dc.subjectRefugees
dc.subjectCash transfers
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectChild labor
dc.subjectRegression discontinuity design
dc.subjectProgram evaluation
dc.subjectTurkey
dc.title.enKeeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
dc.typeArticle de revueen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103266en_US
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et financesen_US
bordeaux.journalJournal of Development Economicsen_US
bordeaux.page103266en_US
bordeaux.hal.laboratoriesBordeaux Sciences Economiques / Bordeaux School of Economics (BSE) - UMR 6060en_US
bordeaux.institutionUniversité de Bordeauxen_US
bordeaux.institutionCNRS
bordeaux.institutionINRAE
bordeaux.peerReviewedouien_US
bordeaux.inpressnonen_US
bordeaux.import.sourcedissemin
hal.identifierhal-04519884
hal.version1
hal.date.transferred2024-03-25T12:49:00Z
hal.popularnonen_US
hal.audienceInternationaleen_US
hal.exporttrue
workflow.import.sourcedissemin
dc.rights.ccPas de Licence CCen_US
bordeaux.COinSctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Journal%20of%20Development%20Economics&rft.date=2024-02-11&rft.spage=103266&rft.epage=103266&rft.eissn=0304-3878&rft.issn=0304-3878&rft.au=AYG%C3%9CN,%20Aysun%20H%C4%B1z%C4%B1ro%C4%9Flu&KIRDAR,%20Murat%20G%C3%BCray&KOYUNCU,%20Murat&STOEFFLER,%20Quentin&rft.genre=article


Files in this item

FilesSizeFormatView

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record