Income Effect on Labor Outcomes for People Living in Poverty: the case of PROGRESA

 

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Tekijä: Mesén Vargas, Juliana
Aineistotyyppi: documento de trabajo
Julkaisupäivä:2021
Kuvaus:This paper studies the income effect of cash transfers on adult labor outcomes. I use data of PROGRESA, a large cash transfer program in Mexico that provides money to households subject to the condition that school aged kids go to school. I focus on a subsample of the eligibles for whom the conditionality is not a constraint. This allows me to shut-down the substitution effect that the conditionality of the transfer may induce. In practice, it is as if PROGRESA was an unconditional cash transfer for this subpopulation. Contrary to standard beliefs, I find that the income effect on labor outcomes is not negative.
Maa:Kérwá
Organisaatio:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Kieli:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/82998
Linkit:https://ideas.repec.org/p/ctl/louvir/2018015.html
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/82998
Sanahaku:Cash Transfers
Conditionality
Poverty
Labor Supply