How Do Cash Transfers Affect Child Work and Schooling? Surprising evidence from Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia

Jacobus de Hoop, Valeria Groppo and Office of Research - Innocenti Unicef

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Abstract: Cash transfers supplement household income, but can they also reduce child labour? With generous funding from the United States Department of Labor, researchers at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti evaluated the impact of three large-scale, government cash transfer programmes to answer this question.

Keywords: child labour; schooling; social protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7
Date: 2020
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