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Title: Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply

Author(s): Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Pronzato and Giuseppe Sorrenti

Publication Date: March 2020

Keyword(s): conditional cash transfers, Household Labor Supply, mentoring courses and poverty

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. Recipients are required to attend labor-market-oriented mentoring courses as a condition of 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. Results seem to be explained by improved family networks and increased parental investments in activities that enhance labor market opportunities.

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Del Boca, D, Pronzato, C and Sorrenti, G. 2020. 'Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14541