"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the regression discontinuity … noneligible households in the control localities. This paper--a product of the Poverty and Gender Unit, Latin America and the … Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to develop and apply rigorous methods in the evaluation of poverty …