Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189747 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP33/18
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The recipient of the transfer is randomized across municipalities, with payments targeted to either the mother or the father of the child. We show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to women increases the expenditure share on food by about 4 to 5 percentage points. At low levels of food expenditure, we observe a shift towards a more nutritious diet as a result of targeting women.
Subjects: 
CCT
intra-household
gender
expenditure
JEL: 
D12
D13
E21
O12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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