TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fenoll, Ainoa Aparicio
AU  - Quaranta, Roberto
        TI  - How to Best Fight Poverty:  The Uneven Ex-post Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labor Earnings
        PY  - 2022/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15658
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15658
        AB  - Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the program anymore. We compare the ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfer programs on labor income. We use an experiment where low-income individuals are randomly assigned to three groups: no treatment, unconditional cash transfer, and cash transfer conditional on reemployment training. We exploit Social Security data, including all registered labor contracts in Italy. Results show that conditional cash transfers have positive and sizeable effects on labor income, both contemporaneous and ex-post effects. These effects last at least two years and are led by males. Unconditional cash transfers have no impact on labor income.
        KW  - cash transfers
KW  - conditionality
KW  - poverty
KW  - social security data
        ER  -