Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future incidence of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health and nutrition. The success of CCT programmes at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent...

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Main Authors:	Skoufias, Emmanuel, Di Maro, Vincenzo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Health: Government Policy Regulation Public Health I180 Education: Government Policy I280 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
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spelling	okr-10986-49492021-04-23T14:02:20Z Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty Skoufias, Emmanuel Di Maro, Vincenzo Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Health: Government Policy Regulation Public Health I180 Education: Government Policy I280 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future incidence of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health and nutrition. The success of CCT programmes at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. In this paper we examine whether the PROGRESA programme of Mexico affects adult participation in the labour market and overall adult leisure time, and we link these effects to the impact of the programme on poverty. Utilising the experimental design of PROGRESA's evaluation sample, we find that the programme does not have any significant effect on adult labour force participation and leisure time. Our findings on adult work incentives are reinforced further by the result that PROGRESA leads to a substantial reduction in poverty. The poverty reduction effects are stronger for the poverty gap and severity of poverty measures. 2012-03-30T07:30:31Z 2012-03-30T07:30:31Z 2008 Journal Article Journal of Development Studies 00220388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4949 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Mexico
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topic	Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Health: Government Policy Regulation Public Health I180 Education: Government Policy I280 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
spellingShingle	Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Health: Government Policy Regulation Public Health I180 Education: Government Policy I280 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Skoufias, Emmanuel Di Maro, Vincenzo Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
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description	Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future incidence of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health and nutrition. The success of CCT programmes at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. In this paper we examine whether the PROGRESA programme of Mexico affects adult participation in the labour market and overall adult leisure time, and we link these effects to the impact of the programme on poverty. Utilising the experimental design of PROGRESA's evaluation sample, we find that the programme does not have any significant effect on adult labour force participation and leisure time. Our findings on adult work incentives are reinforced further by the result that PROGRESA leads to a substantial reduction in poverty. The poverty reduction effects are stronger for the poverty gap and severity of poverty measures.
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title	Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
title_short	Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
title_full	Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
title_fullStr	Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
title_full_unstemmed	Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty

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