The impact on consumption of more cash in conditional cash transfer programs
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Making Conditional Cash Transfer Programs More Efficient
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become extensively used to induce poor parents to increase their investments in the human capital of their children. The condition on school attendance and use of health facilities transforms the transfer into a price effect on the condition. Justification for the condition is to reduce market failures due to positive externalities from investments ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economia Aplicada
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1413-8050
DOI: 10.1590/s1413-80502013000400002