Child Labor Under Cash and In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from Rural Mexico

Abstract

and conference participants at the IIPF Annual Conference and SAEe for helpful comments. I am grateful to Orazio Attanasio and Giacomo de Giorgi for providing me with the data. Financial support from the EPSRC, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi and Fondazione per il Territorio BPN is gratefully acknowledged.

The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Food Transfers on Learning

“…Results presented in Skoufias et al (2013) find that PAL did not lead to any change in the overall labor supply of adult males and females, but adult males substituted agricultural activities with non-agricultural ones. Also, Tagliati (2019) finds that among older children (age 15-16 at the baseline) both transfers increased child labor, with a stronger impact for cash transfers. Taken all together, the available evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that at least in households with primary school age children, the transfer contributed to a partial reallocation of agricultural tasks from adults and older children to younger ones.…”

Dampak sampingan program bantuan tunai: Bukti dari data randomized control trial di Indonesia

“…Hal tersebut dikarenakan pemberian bantuan tunai dapat menyebabkan orang miskin bekerja lebih sedikit dan bergantung pada bantuan tersebut. Beberapa penelitian telah mendokumentasikan dampak dari bantuan tunai atau program perlindungan sosial lainnya terhadap partisipasi tenaga kerja (Banerjee dkk., 2016;Schmieder & Trenkle, 2020;Baird dkk., 2018;Salehi dkk., 2018;Tagliati, 2019). Das (2018) dan Handa dkk.…”