@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp14068,
            	author={Stark, Oded},
            	title={Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment},
            	year={2021},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={14068},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14068},
	abstract={In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the analysis that lies behind this claim. I argue that in seeking to understand the likelihood of women migrating if they participate in a CCT program, issues of selectivity, endogeneity, and optimization cannot be set aside. In particular, it is not that receiving CCT curtails a migration option; it is that not contemplating migration encourages women to accept CCT. And if a household perspective is brought to bear, then a household's free choices weaken the appeal of migration to women. This reduction in appeal does not arise from an exogenously imposed curb but rather from endogenously determined preferences.},
	keywords={selectivity and endogeneity;conditional cash transfers;revision of the comparative advantage of household members;women's migration;household's optimization},
            }