John Maluccio (Economics) and colleagues from the University of Colorado and the Paris School of Economics have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project titled Effects of Social Transfer Programs on Cognitive, Social, and Economic Outcomes. This project will determine the effects of the Nicaraguan Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program on outcomes such as cognitive abilities, schooling, and labor market success, ten years after the start of the program. Included is funding for Middlebury undergraduates to serve as research assistants.

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