Short-Term Labor Responses to Unconditional Cash Transfers

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

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...

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 to Reduce Children ’ s Poverty

This briefing note provides an overview of the role of cash transfers in the reduction of children's poverty in low and middle income countries. Drawing on existing literature and programme experiences, the note outlines the following key points: • There has been an increasing emphasis on (targeted) cash transfers as a key instrument to reduce poverty, deprivation and vulnerability of children ...