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- Title
Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development.
- Authors
Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher; Wiswall, Matthew
- Abstract
We utilise 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 efficacy of unrestricted, restricted, and conditional cash transfer (CCT) systems, and find that an optimally chosen CCT programme is the most cost-efficient way to attain any given gain in average child quality. We explore several design elements for the CCT system and discuss the role of production function uncertainty and measurement error.
- Subjects
CHILD development; CONDITIONAL cash transfer programs; ECONOMICS; PARENTING; SOCIAL planning
- Publication
Economic Journal, 2016, Vol 126, Issue 596, pF136
- ISSN
0013-0133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecoj.12340