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Cash transfers to the elderly and its spillover effects

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  • Pedro Rodrigues de Oliveira
  • Ana Lúcia Kassouf
  • Juliana Maria de Aquino

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present evidences on the spillover effects of a cash transfer addressed to poor elders in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach - Using the Brazilian National Households Survey (PNAD) the authors assess the effects of an income transfer to the elders on household composition and the labor supply of elders and co-residing relatives, under a regression discontinuity design. Findings - The authors do not find strong evidences of changes in the household composition due to the program. However the authors found reductions in the elders’ labor force participation, indicating that the program allow elders to retire. Moreover, the transfer yields a decrease in the labor force participation of co-residents, depending on their age. The authors also observe decreases in child labor. Originality/value - Along with the cash comes context-dependent effects, showing there are many latent aspects of these transfers yet to be uncovered.

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  • Pedro Rodrigues de Oliveira & Ana Lúcia Kassouf & Juliana Maria de Aquino, 2017. "Cash transfers to the elderly and its spillover effects," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 44(2), pages 183-205, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jespps:jes-04-2015-0059
    DOI: 10.1108/JES-04-2015-0059
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    Cited by:

    1. Guilherme Fonseca Travassos & Alexandre Bragança Coelho & Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning, 2022. "Poverty Among The Elderly: An Application of a Collective Consumption Model in Brazil," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 163(2), pages 925-951, September.
    2. Emma Aguila & Mariana López-Ortega & Luis Miguel Gutiérrez Robledo, 2018. "Non-contributory pension programs and frailty of older adults: Evidence from Mexico," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-19, November.
    3. Jing You & Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, 2019. "The Intergenerational Impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 45(S1), pages 47-95, December.

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    Keywords

    Labor supply; Regression discontinuity design; Cash transfer; Child labor; I38; J14; J22; J26; O01;
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    JEL classification:

    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies

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