Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income?

• Tác giả: Norbert Schady
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 339.2 Distribution of income and wealth
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 294567
• Chủ đề: 1. Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230; 2. Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380; 3. Redistributive Effects; 4. Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; 5. Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs

Tóm tắt

We use a randomized design to analyze the effects of unconditional cash transfers to women on the food Engel curve. After the intervention, households assigned to the "treatment" group had significantly higher food shares than those assigned to the "control" group.