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Learning Together
How Families Responded to Education Incentives in New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
2011. David Greenberg, Nadine Dechausay, and Carolyn Fraker.
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.
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All Opportunity NYC Demonstrations Publications
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Learning Together
How Families Responded to Education Incentives in New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
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2011. David Greenberg, Nadine Dechausay, and Carolyn Fraker.
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.
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Toward Reduced Poverty Across Generations
Early Findings from New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
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2010. James Riccio, Nadine Dechausay, David Greenberg, Cynthia Miller, Zawadi Rucks, and Nandita Verma.
Targeted toward low-income families in six high-poverty New York City communities, Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards offers cash payments tied to efforts and achievements in children’s education, family preventive health care practices, and parents’ employment. In its first two years, the program substantially reduced poverty and material hardship and had positive results in improving some education, health-related, and work-related outcomes.
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A Preliminary Look at Early Educational Results of the Opportunity NYC – Family Rewards Program
A Research Note for Funders
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2009. Cynthia Miller, James Riccio, and Jared Smith.
Targeted toward very low-income families in six high-poverty New York City communities, Family Rewards offers cash payments tied to efforts and achievements in children’s education, family preventive health care practices, and parents’ employment. This paper reviews data on participants’ receipt of rewards and offers preliminary estimates of the program’s impacts on selected educational outcomes during the first year.
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