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Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment
In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the analysis that lies behind this claim. I argue that in seeking to understand the likelihood of women migrating if they participate in a CCT program, issues of selectivity, endogeneity, and optimization cannot be set aside. In particular, it is not that receiving CCT curtails a migration option; it is that not contemplating migration encourages women to accept CCT. And if a household perspective is brought to bear, then a household's free choices weaken the appeal of migration to women. This reduction in appeal does not arise from an exogenously imposed curb but rather from endogenously determined preferences.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14068
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Wirtschaft
Feminist Economics
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
- Subject
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women's migration
conditional cash transfers
selectivity and endogeneity
revision of the comparative advantage of household members
household's optimization
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Stark, Oded
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Stark, Oded
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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