Conditional Cash Transfers, Payment Dates and Labor Supply: Evidence from Peru

Arbeitspapier

We assess the effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer program on adult labor supply in Peru. The program, named Juntos, lacks an experimental design so we rely on a sort of “natural experiment”. Instead of comparing treated and non-treated households, our strategy exploits within-municipality variation in the distance between payment dates of Juntos and interview dates of the Peruvian National Household Survey. We find that having received the cash transfer two weeks before the interview causes a reduction of 6 hours of work of recipients during the week prior to the survey. These effects are larger for married women and for mothers with children aged 5 or less. In addition, results are robust to different specifications and changes in the sample.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 140

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; Education: Government Policy
• Thema: Öffentliche Sozialleistungen ; Arbeitsangebot ; Peru

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fernandez, Fernando ; Saldarriaga, Victor
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
• (wo): La Plata
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127663
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ