TY - JOUR
T1 - Household responses to cash transfers
AU - de rock, Bram
AU - Potoms, Tom
AU - Tommasi, Denni
N1 - Funding Information:
This is a substantial revision of an earlier paper that circulated under the same title. We have benefited from the comments of the editor, the associate editor, and two anonymous referees. We thank several participants at conferences and seminars for useful comments and suggestions. We acknowledge financial support from the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS). All errors are our own. Contact the corresponding author, Bram De Rock, at [email protected].
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PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - This paper exploits the experimental setup of the cash transfer program PROGRESA (Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion) in rural Mexico to estimate a collective model of the household in order to investigate how parents allocate household resources. We show that household decisions are compatible with the testable implications of the collective model, based on so-called distribution factors, at the beginning of the program but reject them later on. We discuss a number of possible explanations for these findings and provide several arguments, consistent with our model, suggesting that this rejection may indicate that the treatment is not only empowering women but also possibly changing individual preferences.
AB - This paper exploits the experimental setup of the cash transfer program PROGRESA (Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion) in rural Mexico to estimate a collective model of the household in order to investigate how parents allocate household resources. We show that household decisions are compatible with the testable implications of the collective model, based on so-called distribution factors, at the beginning of the program but reject them later on. We discuss a number of possible explanations for these findings and provide several arguments, consistent with our model, suggesting that this rejection may indicate that the treatment is not only empowering women but also possibly changing individual preferences.
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U2 - 10.1086/713539
DO - 10.1086/713539
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120750213
SN - 0013-0079
VL - 70
SP - 625
EP - 652
JO - Economic Development and Cultural Change
JF - Economic Development and Cultural Change
IS - 2
ER -