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Can cash transfers reduce child labor?

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  • Furio C. Rosati

    (University of Rome Tor Vergata, and ICID, Italy, and IZA, Germany)

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Cash transfers are a popular and successful means of tackling household vulnerability and promoting human capital investment. They can also reduce child labor, especially when it is a response to household vulnerability, but their efficacy is very variable. If not properly designed, cash transfers that promote children's education can increase their economic activities in order to pay the additional costs of schooling. The efficacy of cash transfers may also be reduced if the transfers enable investment in productive assets that boost the returns to child labor. The impact of cash transfers must thus be assessed as part of the whole incentive system faced by the household.

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  • Furio C. Rosati, 2022. "Can cash transfers reduce child labor?," World of Labour, LISER, pages 293-293, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izawol:journl:2022:n:293
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    2. Robert D. Osei & Monica Lambon‐Quayefio, 2021. "Cash transfers and the supply of labor by poor households: Evidence from the livelihood empowerment against poverty program in Ghana," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(3), pages 1293-1304, August.
    3. Kristiano Raccanello, 2022. "Quality of Life for Beneficiaries of an Unconditional Transfer Education Program in Mexico City," Economía: teoría y práctica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, vol. 56(1), pages 201-226, Enero-Jun.

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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J80 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - General

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