Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children

Johannes Haushofer, Magdalena Larreboure, Sara Lowes and Leon Mait

No 18494, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences of children. The program allocated $1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. We measure the social preferences of 4,022 children from 1,687 households with survey questions and incentivized behavioral games three years after the intervention. We distinguish between the direct effects on children of recipient households and the spillover effects on children of neighboring households. We do not find consistent evidence that children from treatment and spillover groups are more or less prosocial than children from the control group. Additionally, we find no persistent economic effects of the program. We find some evidence of reduced psychological well-being among adults and children in spillover households.

Keywords: Cash transfers; Social preferences; Children; Behavioral games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 C93 D31 I38 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP18494 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org

Related works:
Working Paper: Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children (2023)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:18494

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP18494

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().