Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216414 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13102
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. Recipients are required to attend labor-market-oriented mentoring courses as a condition of the transfer. One year after admission to the program, fathers assigned to the CCT program are more likely to work (+14 percent) than fathers assigned to an unconditional cash transfer program or to a pure control group. No effect arises for mothers. Results seem to be explained by improved family networks and increased parental investments in activities that enhance labor market opportunities.
Subjects: 
conditional cash transfers
poverty
household labor supply
mentoring courses
JEL: 
I10
I20
J24
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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