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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring courses constitutes the condition to obtain the transfer. One year after admission to the program, fathers assigned to the CCT program are more likely to work (+14 percent) than fathers assigned to an unconditional cash transfer program or to a pure control group. No effect arises for mothers. Increased paternal investments in activities enhancing labor market opportunities and improved family networks seem to explain the results.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8247
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Education and Research Institutions: General
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
General Welfare; Well-Being
- Subject
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conditional cash transfers
poverty
household labor supply
mentoring courses
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Del Boca, Daniela
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela
Sorrenti, Giuseppe
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Del Boca, Daniela
- Pronzato, Chiara Daniela
- Sorrenti, Giuseppe
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2020
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