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Learning Together: How Families Responded to Education Incentives in New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program

2011; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2031255

1556-5068

David Greenberg, Nadine Dechausay, Carolyn Fraker,

Early Childhood Education and Development

Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards was a conditional cash transfer program that provided payments to low-income families for achieving specific health, education, and employment goals. Drawing on in-depth interviews, this report looks at how families viewed the education incentives, communicated about them with their children, reinforced educational rewards, and advanced their quality of life through the program.