Schooling responses to income changes: Evidence from unconditional cash transfers in Rwanda

The Short-term Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers to the Poor: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Cash Transfers and Child Schooling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Role of Conditionality

We conduct a randomized experiment in Burkina Faso to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on education. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional (on enrollment and attendance) or unconditional. Results indicate that conditional and unconditional transfers have similar impacts increasing enrollment for children t...

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...

E¢ cient responses to targeted cash transfers

The unitary model has been rejected many times. In this paper, we start from one such rejection in the context of rural Mexico and propose a test of one of the main alternatives to the unitary model, the so called collective model, a model that assumes that intrahousehold allocations, however, determined, are e¢ cient. The test we propose requires the consideration of a demand system with at le...

Gender targeting of unconditional income transfers and child nutritional status: Experimental evidence from the Bolivian Amazon

Observational studies suggest that women’s income benefits children’s health and nutritional status, as well as education, more than men’s income, apparently because women are more likely to shift marginal resources to their children. These studies have influenced policies such as conditional cash transfers, which typically target women. However, previous studies have been unable to control for...