Antipoverty Transfers and Labour Market Outcomes: Regression Discontinuity Design Findings

Armando Barrientos and Juan Villa

Journal of Development Studies, 2015, vol. 51, issue 9, 1224-1240

Abstract: The article estimates the impact of Familias en Acci�n , a human development conditional cash transfer programme, on adult labour market outcomes in urban areas in Colombia. Relying on a regression discontinuity design and a large panel dataset, the article finds significant, largely positive, but heterogeneous programme effects on labour market outcomes. The findings suggest that antipoverty transfers enable a re-allocation of household productive resources among participant households.

Date: 2015
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