| Date: | 2006- |
| Description: | Conditional Cash Transfer Programme established as an incentive for the enrolment, attendance, and completion of the school year for children in primary education. In its first year, the programme assisted children in 1st to 5th grade. The programme's coverage has been expanded on several occasions: In 2007, it was extended to 6th grade, in 2008 to 2nd year of secondary school, in 2012 to 3rd year of secondary school, in 2013 to 4th year of secondary school, and since 2014, coverage has been extended to 6th year of secondary school. Its antecedent was the "Bono Esperanza" implemented by the Municipal Government of El Alto in the department of La Paz, between 2003 and 2005. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Children and adolescents under 21 years old studying the level of vocational community primary education or the level of productive community secondary education, in the fiscal education units of the regular education subsystem agreement. Additionally, students in special education and fiscal centres of the subsystem of alternative and special education agreements without age restriction or degree of education. |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Categorical: public schools users |
| Instrument of selection: | Educational Information System (SIE) and other administrative records of the Ministry of Education |
| Registry of recipients: | Single Registry of Students (RUDE) |
| Exit strategies or criteria: | When recipient(s) loses eligibility |
| Comments: | As part of the measures to face the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation, in March 2020 the government announced the delivery of the Family Allowance (Bono Familia), which was a monetary transfer that aims to contribute to the nutrition of children in vulnerable families that did not receive school breakfast during quarantine. This transfer was delivered once per household, for the amount of BOV $ 500. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Supreme Decrees 28899 (2006), 29321 (2007), 29652 (2008), 0309 (2009), 0648 (2010), 1016 (2011), 1372 (2012), 1748 (2013), 2141 (2014), 2506 (2015), 2899 (2016) y 3331 (2017). Ministerial Resolutions 248 y 775 (2008), 695 (2012), 718 y 719 (2013), 546 (2016) y 2521 (2017). |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Education |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Education |
| Source of funding: | General Treasury of the Nation - Internal resources |
1) Juancito Pinto grant
| Recipient(s): | Children and adolescents attending public schools of formal education, youth alternative and / or special education. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Cash withdrawal |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Annual |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Parent or guardian |
| Conditionalities: | Education: 80% school attendance, according to the teacher report |
| Amount : | BOB $200 in 2021; see Data Excel Format |
2) Family Allowance (for covid-19)
| Recipient(s): | Children of low-income families who attend public schools and who did not have school breakfast during quarantine. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Cash delivery/withdrawal |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Single transfer |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Father, mother or guardian |
| Comments: | On April 1st of 2020 the allowance was extended to students with disabilities. On April 14th of the same year it was extended to students from private schools and alternative education. |
Dependence or Constraints? Labor Supply Responses from a Cash Transfer Program
| Author: | Vera-Cossio, Diego |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Publication info: | IDB WORKING PAPER SERIES Nº IDB-WP-1064 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Schooling and labour market impact of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto
| Author: | Canelas, C. and Niño-Zarazúa, M. |
| Date: | 2018 |
| Publication info: | WIDER Working Paper 2018/36 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Conditional cash transfers for primary education: Which children are left out?
| Author: | Bauchet, J., Undurraga, E., Reyes-García, V., Behrman, J. and Godoy, R. |
| Date: | 2018 |
| Publication info: | World Development Volume 105 (2018), Pages 1–12 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Evaluation on participation |
Cash transfers in Latin America: Effects on poverty and redistribution
| Author: | Amarante, V., and Brun, M. |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Publication info: | WIDER Working Paper 2016/136 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Evaluation |
Matriculación, Trabajo Infantil y Asistencia Escolar en Bolivia: una evaluación al Bono Juancito Pinto
| Author: | Vera, D. and Contreras, D. |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Publication info: | University of Chile. Mimeo |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation on education |
Impacto de los bonos financiados con la renta petrolera
| Author: | Medinaceli, M. and Mokrani, L. |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Publication info: | Revista del Postgrado Multidisciplinario en Ciencias del Desarrollo n. 20 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation on poverty and inequality |
El bono Juancito Pinto del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia. Programas de transferencias monetarias e infancia
| Author: | Marco, Flavia |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Publication info: | Project Documents n. 507. ECLAC |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Perceptions evaluation |
Evaluación de impacto del Bono Juancito Pinto en Bolivia
| Author: | Aguilar, Hernán |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Publication info: | 7th meeting of economists of Bolivia |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation on education |
El impacto del "Bono Juancito Pinto", un analisis a partir de micro-simulaciones
| Author: | Yañez Aguilar, Ernesto |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Publication info: | FOCAL |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact Evaluation |
El Bono Juancito Pinto del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia: Programas de transferencias monetarias e infancia
| Author: | Flavia Marco Navarro |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Publication info: | |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: |
Evaluación del programa Bono Juancito Pinto
| Author: | UDAPE |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Publication info: | In progress |
| Link: | |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation and perceptions |
Bono Juancito Pinto
| Author: | Czerniexicz, Nicole |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Publication info: | UDAPE |
| Link: | |
| Topic: | General information / Evaluation |
