Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216998 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8247
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring courses constitutes the condition to obtain the transfer. One year after admission to the program, fathers assigned to the CCT program are more likely to work (+14 percent) than fathers assigned to an unconditional cash transfer program or to a pure control group. No effect arises for mothers. Increased paternal investments in activities enhancing labor market opportunities and improved family networks seem to explain the results.
Subjects: 
conditional cash transfers
poverty
household labor supply
mentoring courses
JEL: 
I10
I20
J24
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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