Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have been under close scrutiny with regard to their impacts on intermediate outcomes such as increase in school attendance, improved nutrition, higher immunization rates and attendance to at pre- and postnatal care and health checks for children. But it...

This article analyses the impact of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), Brazil?s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme), by way of an ?income shock? on the labour supply of beneficiaries as measured by probability of working and number of weekly hours worked by both men and women. Bolsa Família...

Este Policy Research Brief documenta tanto o desempenho da focalização na expansão de Programa de Subsídio de Alimentos (PSA) em Moçambique, em 2008, quanto o impacto do programa em alguns indicadores-chave.1 A expansão do PSA, em 2008, foi financiada pelo Departamento Britânico para o...

Much of the debate about conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes revolves around the issues of targeting and conditionalities. Despite the many impact evaluations of CCT programmes, mostly in Latin America, there is little evidence on either the effect of the cash alone or the value added by...

In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...

Since the 1990s, Latin American governments have implemented various conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs). The objective of CCTs is to alleviate poverty in the short run and create conditions for upward social mobility in the long run through human capital investments. CCTs target...