Labor Supply and Conditional Cash Transfer: Evidences from Tekoporã Program
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
How school quality affects the success of a conditional cash transfer program Conditional cash transfer programs
Over the past decade, conditional cash transfer programs have been widely adopted in lowerand middle-income countries. Nearly every Latin American country has such a program, and pilot programs are being implemented in countries around the world, including locations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and most recently, North America. There has been relatively consistent evidence that these prog...
متن کاملHeterogeneous Labor Supply Response to a Classic Transfer Program
The standard static model of the e¤ect of welfare program participation on labor supply is estimated allowing the e¤ect of participation to be heterogeneous in the population and allowing the program participation decision to be endogenous and to exhibit incomplete takeup. A reduced form model is estimated with nonparametric methods to determine the distribution of the marginal treatment e¤ect ...
متن کاملTwo Year Cash Transfer Program*
We study a group of young women in rural Malawi who were exposed to a cash transfer experiment as adolescents. More than two years after the end of transfers, we find that the substantial short-term benefits of the program have largely evaporated. Unconditional cash transfers (UCT) caused a shortterm delay of marriage, fertility, and HIV infection, but the ending of the program is immediately f...
متن کاملMaking Conditional Cash Transfer Programs More Efficient
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become extensively used to induce poor parents to increase their investments in the human capital of their children. The condition on school attendance and use of health facilities transforms the transfer into a price effect on the condition. Justification for the condition is to reduce market failures due to positive externalities from investments ...
متن کاملThe Daily Grind : Cash Needs and Labor Supply
We document three facts about the labor supply of Kenyan bicycle-taxi drivers: (1) drivers work more on days with higher cash needs; (2) the quitting hazard increases once the day’s need is reached; but (3) randomized cash payouts have no meaningful effect on labor supply. These results are consistent with models in which workers have reference-dependent preferences over earned income targets. ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Población y Desarrollo
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2076-054X
DOI: 10.18004/pdfce/2076-054x/2019.025.49.010-023