Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Education

This seminar focuses on the implications of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Programs on access to education in Latin American countries. The researcher and former Vice-Minister of Social Development in Brazil Rômulo Paes de Sousa will talk about the Bolsa Família program and its potentials as an effective educational policy. The former president of Peru Alejandro Toledo will discuss the challenges and outcomes of the program Juntos on the Peruvian education. The debate will be coordinated by the Stanford professor Eric Bettinger.