%0 Report
        %A Boca, Daniela Del
%A Pronzato, Chiara D.
%A Sorrenti, Giuseppe
        %T Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13102
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13102
        %X 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.
        %K household labor supply
%K poverty
%K conditional cash transfers
%K mentoring courses