Arbeitspapier
Cash Transfers and Child Labour
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the impact of cash transfers, conditional and unconditional, on child labour. We find no evidence that cash transfer interventions increase child labour in practice. On the contrary, there is broad evidence that cash transfers, conditional and unconditional, lower both the extensive and intensive margin of child labour. Our findings underline the usefulness of cash transfers as a relatively safe policy instrument to improve child welfare, but also point to knowledge gaps that would need to be addressed in future evaluations to provide detailed policy advice.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7496
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education: Government Policy
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Development Planning and Policy: General
- Subject
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cash transfers
child labour
impact evaluation
review
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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de Hoop, Jacobus
Rosati, Furio Camillo
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- de Hoop, Jacobus
- Rosati, Furio Camillo
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2013
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