Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher; Wiswall, Matthew
• 署名单位: University of Turin; New York University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12340
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: F136-F183
• 关键词: cash transfer program; family income; IMPACT; achievement; performance; TECHNOLOGY; Mexico; LABOR

摘要

We utilise a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost criterion that can be used to compare the efficacy of unrestricted, restricted, and conditional cash transfer (CCT) systems, and find that an optimally chosen CCT programme is the most cost-efficient way to attain any given gain in average child quality. We explore several design elements for the CCT system and discuss the role of production function uncertainty and measurement error.