TY - JOUR AB - We investigated (1) how household wealth affected the relationshipbetween conditional cash transfers (CCT) and unconditional cashtransfers (UCT) and school attendance, (2) whether CCT and UCTaffected educational outcomes (repeating a year of school), (3) ifbaseline school attendance and transfer conditions affected howmuch of the transfers participants spent on education and (4) if CCTor UCT reduced child labour in recipient households. Data wereanalysed from a cluster-randomized controlled trial of CCT and UCTin 4043 households from 2009 to 2010. Recipient households received$18 dollars per month plus $4 per child. CCT were conditioned onabove 80% school attendance, a full vaccination record and a birthcertificate. In the poorest quintile, the odds ratio of above 80% schoolattendance at follow-up for those with below 80% school attendanceat baseline was 1.06 (p = .67) for UCT vs. CCT. UCT recipients reportedspending slightly more (46.1% (45.4–46.7)) of the transfer on schoolexpenses than did CCT recipients (44.8% (44.1–45.5)). Amongstthose with baseline school attendance of below 80%, there was nostatistically significant difference between CCT and UCT participantsin the proportion of the transfer spent on school expenses (p = .63).Amongst those with above 80% baseline school attendance, CCTparticipants spent 3.5% less (p = .001) on school expenses than UCTparticipants. UCT participants were no less likely than those in thecontrol group to repeat a grade of school. CCT participants had .69(.60–.79) lower odds vs. control of repeating the previous schoolgrade. Children in CCT recipient households spent an average of .31fewer hours in paid work than those in the control group (p < .001)and children in the UCT arm spent an average of .15 fewer hours inpaid work each week than those in the control arm (p = .06). AU - Gregson,S AU - Fenton,R AU - Nyamukapa,C AU - Robertson,L AU - Mushati,P AU - Thomas,R AU - Eaton,J DO - 10.1080/13548506.2016.1140903 EP - 917 PY - 2016/// SN - 1354-8506 SP - 909 TI - Wealth Differentials in the Impact of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Education: Findings from a Community-Randomised Controlled Trial in Zimbabwe T2 - Psychology, Health & Medicine UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2016.1140903 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/29383 VL - 21 ER -