Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Plug, Erik; Ponce, Juan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which...