Gender targeting of unconditional income transfers and child ...

1 Gender targeting of unconditional income transfers and child ...

Gender targeting of unconditional income transfers and child nutritional status: Experimental evidence from the Bolivian Amazon. Eduardo A. Undurragaa ...

Observational studies suggest that women's income benefits children's health and nutritional status, as well as education, more than men's income, ...

Gender-targeted transfers by default? - IFAU

2 Low-income families with children are also eligible for means-tested benefits (housing allowances, social assistance). Page 5. 3 and a lone ...

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence ...

... income countries to conditional cash transfer programs in lower-income countries ... gender-targeted transfers advance child welfare or gender equality.

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on ...

spend income differently (in particular, transfer income). ... As instruments for this choice we use the gender of the first born child and the expected ...

The Effect of Gender Targeting and Conditionality on Household ...

Results indicate that transfer income is not spent differently from general income, suggesting that transfers exert only an income effect. In addition, women ...

The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers

Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal investments in children. This paper ...

Cash Transfers and Child and Adolescent Development - NCBI

Unconditional cash transfer (UCT) programs are those in which families receive cash benefits because the household falls below a certain income cutoff or lives ...

The impact of unconditional cash transfers on enhancing household ...

Hou and Ma (2011) argue that if BISP can successfully increase women's decision-making power, it will most likely lead to gains in human ...

The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers - ScienceDirect

CCTs are beneficial from a targeting perspective because they direct money to the set of households who forgo a large amount of child income. We argue that this ...

Evidence Gap Map Cash Transfers and Cash Plus Programs in Low ...

for women and girls, children, and adolescents, while unconditional cash transfers are more ... targeting men or women or targeting children ...

Publication: Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other ...

Finally, the authors show that within mixed-adult households, program effects are only significant in households in which the initial bargaining capacity of ...

Unconditional Cash Transfers Allow Women to Save and Re-Invest ...

We posit that the key design feature of the programme that make these results possible is that the transfer is unconditional and paid directly ...

The impact of cash transfers on women and girls - GOV.UK

Today,. 130 low- and middle-income countries have at least one non-contributory unconditional cash transfer (UCT) programme, including poverty-targeted ...

Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about ...

Arguments for providing unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) to poor households in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) to utilize as they wish are numerous.

Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of ...

Fourth, effects on consumption and income are greater for UCTs targeted to women. Fifth, programs employing light-touch framing related to child ...

The Impact of Gender-Targeted Cash Transfers in North Macedonia

Many governments in low-income countries have turned to conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs to incentivize parents to invest in their children's education ...

FAMILY-ORIENTED CASH TRANSFERS FROM A GENDER ...

While child benefits and family allowances have long formed part of social protection systems in high-income countries,2 over the past two decades low- and ...

The impact of cash transfers on women and girls - UNGEI

Today, 130 low- and middle-income countries have at least one non-contributory unconditional cash transfer ... programme, including poverty-targeted transfers and.

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on ...

Since CCT payments can be perceived as compensation for reduced labour income (or contri- bution to home production) of the child enrolling in school, an ...