Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

heterogeneity of the effect depending on woman’s education, husband’s employment status, number and age of children, and whether the …

, socioemotional skills and off-farm employment and income. However, many other estimates are not statistically different from zero and …