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How Differences in Cash Transfer Sizes Affect Work Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Cross‐Country Comparisons in SSA

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  • Ervin Prifti
  • Elisenda Estruch
  • Silvio Daidone
  • Benjamin Davis

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Over the past decade, several African governments have launched Cash Transfer (CT) programmes as part of their social protection systems, with the aim of reducing poverty. Such programmes can also have significant productive impacts. We use data from four major CT programmes implemented in sub‐Saharan Africa to estimate their impacts on labour supply and demand and how effects change in relation to transfer size. We find evidence of labour reallocation between farm and off‐farm work and limited evidence of monotonicity of the labour supply–transfer size relationship.

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  • Ervin Prifti & Elisenda Estruch & Silvio Daidone & Benjamin Davis, 2018. "How Differences in Cash Transfer Sizes Affect Work Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Cross‐Country Comparisons in SSA," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 32(3), pages 395-426, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:labour:v:32:y:2018:i:3:p:395-426
    DOI: 10.1111/labr.12127
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    1. Ervin Prifti & Silvio Daidone & Greta Campora & Noemi Pace, 2021. "Government Transfers and Time Allocation Decisions: The Case of Child Labour in Ethiopia," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(1), pages 16-40, January.

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