Cash Transfers, Labor Supply, and Gender Inequality: Evidence from South Africa

Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa.

In many parts of the developing world, rural areas exhibit high rates of unemployment and underemployment. Understanding what prevents people from migrating to find better jobs is central to the development process. In this paper, we examine whether binding credit constraints and childcare constraints limit the ability of households to send labor migrants, and whether the arrival of a large, st...

Nber Working Paper Series Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

The South African old-age social pension has been much studied by both researchers and policy makers, in part for the larger lessons that might be learned about behavioral responses to cash transfers in developing countries. In this paper, we quantify the labor supply responses of prime-aged individuals to changes in the presence of old-age pensioners in their households, using longitudinal dat...

Disability Screening and Labor Supply: Evidence from South Africa.

Large Cash Transfers to the Elderly in South Africa

We examine the social pension in South Africa, where large cash sums-about twice the median per capita income of African households-are paid to people qualified by age but irrespective of previous contributions. We present the history of the scheme and use a 1993 nationally representative survey to investigate the redistributive consequences of the transfers, documenting who receive the pension...

Labour supply responses to large social transfers : Longitudinal evidence from South Africa