TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Boca, Daniela Del
AU  - Pronzato, Chiara D.
AU  - Sorrenti, Giuseppe
        TI  - Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
        PY  - 2020/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13102
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13102
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - household labor supply
KW  - poverty
KW  - conditional cash transfers
KW  - mentoring courses
        ER  -