Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a … conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …

(improving the household budget) or as a complement (improving soil quality, increasing agricultural yields). We collected … to 15 per cent of the average household use of artificial fertilizers. While our results imply small economic incentives … at the household level for investing in ecological sanitation, we do not account for health effects at the household or …

In the context of a collective household choice model, we show that the effects of improved credit access on search … intensity by the unemployed are heterogeneous across households and dependent on the within-household bargaining power of the … unemployed. We find empirical support for the predictions of our model using a household survey conducted by the authors in Cape …