General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence From Kenya

The Short-term Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers to the Poor: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Welfare Effects of Unconditonal Cash Transfers: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya: Online Appendix

1 Variables collected 1.1 Household and individual level 1. Assets (a) Movable assets i. Livestock: Sum of all livestock assets owned by respondents in Kenyan Shillings, including cows, small livestock, and birds. ii. Furniture: Value of cupboards, sofas, chairs, tables, clocks, stoves, and beds as self reported in Kenyan Shillings. iii. Agricultural tools: Value of farming tools, wheelbarrows,...

Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua

Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua In the last decade, the most popular policy tool used to increase human capital in developing countries has been the conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean impacts on schooling, health, and child labor. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using random-assignment data from...

Beyond cash: Assessing externality and behaviour effects of non-experimental cash transfers

In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and externality (indirect) effect. We also suggest a nonparametric decomposition to investigate whether cha...

Education and Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

This paper provides experimental evidence on the relationship between education and early fertility in a developing country. We exploit experimental variation in the cost of education for a cohort of 18,000 students in Western Kenya. Students in Kenyan primary schools wear uniforms which typically cost about $6. In 163 schools randomly selected from among 328, students enrolled in grade 6 at ba...