Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Daniela Del Boca; Christopher Flinn; Matthew Wiswall

doi:10.1111/ecoj.12340

Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn, Matthew Wiswall

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	F136-F183
Journal	Economic Journal
Volume	126
Issue number	596
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12340
State	Published - Oct 1 2016

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