Arbeitspapier

Efficient responses to targeted cash transfers

In this paper, we estimate a collective model of household consumption and test the restrictions of collective rationality using z-conditional demands in the context of a large Conditional Cash Transfer programme in rural Mexico. We show that the model is able to explain the impacts the programme has on the structure of food consumption. We use two plausible and novel distribution factors, that is variables that describe the mechanism by which decisions are reached within the household: the random allocation of a cash transfer to women, and the relative size and wealth of the husband and wife's family networks. We find that the structure we propose does better at predicting the effect of exogenous increases in household income than an alternative, unitary, structure. We cannot reject efficiency of household decisions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. W13/28

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Intrahousehold allocation
collective rationality
social experiment
conditional cash transfers
QUAIDS
food
z-conditional demand

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Attanasio, Orazio P.
Lechene, Valerie
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2013

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2013.1328
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Attanasio, Orazio P.
  • Lechene, Valerie
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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