Arbeitspapier

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8247

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: General
Education and Research Institutions: General
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
General Welfare; Well-Being
Thema
conditional cash transfers
poverty
household labor supply
mentoring courses

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Del Boca, Daniela
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela
Sorrenti, Giuseppe
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Del Boca, Daniela
  • Pronzato, Chiara Daniela
  • Sorrenti, Giuseppe
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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