TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stark, Oded
        TI  - Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment
        PY  - 2021/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14068
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14068
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - selectivity and endogeneity
KW  - conditional cash transfers
KW  - revision of the comparative advantage of household members
KW  - women's migration
KW  - household's optimization
        ER  -