Evaluating the role of a cash transfer program in promoting local employment: A generalized synthetic control approach

João Paulo D. Lima, Valéria Pero and Fábio Waltenberg ()

Revue d’économie du développement, 2022, vol. 31, issue 2, 111-117

Abstract: Based on the administrative data, a generalized synthetic control method was applied to evaluate the impact of cash transfer programs on local employment in the city of Maricá, Brazil. A positive effect of these programs on the number of workers formally employed in the city was observed. JEL Codes: I380, J230.

Keywords: cash transfers; employment; synthetic control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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