Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn and Matthew Wiswall ()

Economic Journal, 2016, vol. 126, issue 596, F136-F183

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2016
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