TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Boca, Daniela Del
AU  - Flinn, Christopher
AU  - Wiswall, Matthew
        TI  - Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development
        PY  - 2014/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8393
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8393
        AB  - In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost criterion that can be used to compare the cost effectiveness of unrestricted, restricted, and conditional cash transfer systems, and find that an optimally chosen conditional cash transfer program is the most cost efficient way to attain any given gain in average child quality. We explore several design elements for the conditional cash transfer system and discuss the role of production function uncertainty and measurement error.
        KW  - conditional cash transfers
KW  - child development
KW  - time allocation
KW  - income transfers
        ER  -