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Can cash transfers reduce child labor?

Cash transfers are a popular and successful means of tackling household vulnerability and promoting human capital investment. They can also reduce child labor, especially when it is a response to household vulnerability, but their efficacy is very variable. If not properly designed, cash transfers that promote children's education can increase their economic activities in order to pay the additional costs of schooling. The efficacy of cash transfers may also be reduced if the transfers enable investment in productive assets that boost the returns to child labor. The impact of cash transfers must thus be assessed as part of the whole incentive system faced by the household.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2022 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Labor Standards: General
Thema
social protection
cash transfers
child labor

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rosati, Furio C.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.15185/izawol.293.v2
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Rosati, Furio C.
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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