Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua

Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua In the last decade, the most popular policy tool used to increase human capital in developing countries has been the conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean impacts on schooling, health, and child labor. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using random-assignment data from...

Perspectives on Cash Transfers

may 21, 2011 vol xlvi no 21 EPW Economic & Political Weekly 80 deciles with the amount of subsidy received, i e, Rs 2.06 per kg. For scenario 4, just like scenario 2, we first calculated the transfer amount by multiplying the total grain that is to be distributed under the NAC proposal with the economic cost incurred by the government, and subtracted this figure from the revenues generated. We ...

Cash Transfers and Child Labour

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...

Cash Transfers and HIV Prevention

Social Protection and Cash Transfers

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