scholarly journals The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures: Evidence from a randomized experiment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orazio Attanasio ◽  
Pedro Carneiro ◽  
Alex Armand ◽  
Valérie Lechene
Keyword(s):  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Randomized Experiment ◽  
Household Expenditures

scholarly journals The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 130 (631) ◽  
pp. 1875-1897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Armand ◽  
Orazio Attanasio ◽  
Pedro Carneiro ◽  
Valérie Lechene
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Household Expenditures ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Food Expenditure ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Republic

Abstract This article studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on household expenditure on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of North Macedonia that offers cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The recipient is randomised across municipalities, with payments targeted to either the mother or the father of the child. Targeting transfers to women increases the expenditure share on food by 4 to 5 percentage points. At low levels of food expenditure, there is a shift towards a more nutritious diet.

Nesting Expectations: What Can the Mexican and Argentinean Cash Transfers Tell Us about the Development of Development?

1969 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Andrés Dapuez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Transfer Programs

Latin American cash transfer programs have been implemented aiming at particular anticipatory scenarios. Given that the fulfillment of cash transfer objectives can be calculated neither empirically nor rationally a priori, I analyse these programs in this article using the concept of an “imaginary future.” I posit that cash transfer implementers in Latin America have entertained three main fictional expectations: social pacification in the short term, market inclusion in the long term, and the construction of a more distributive society in the very long term. I classify and date these developing expectations into three waves of conditional cash transfers implementation.

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