Efficient Responses to Targeted Cash Transfers

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Attanasio, Orazio P.; Lechene, Valerie
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/674968
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 178-222
• 关键词: INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATIONS; EXTENDED FAMILY; food; consumption; program; welfare; income; tests; MODEL

摘要

We estimate and test the restrictions of a collective model of household consumption, using z-conditional demands, in the context of a large conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico. The model can explain the impacts of the program on the structure of food consumption. We use two plausible and novel distribution factors: the random allocation of a cash transfer to women and the relative size and wealth of the husband''s and wife''s family networks. Our structure does better at predicting the effect of exogenous increases in household income than an alternative, unitary, structure. We cannot reject efficiency of household decisions.