Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from a household affects children's school enrollment and work participation in rural Colombia. The results indicate that the permanent departure of the father decreases children's school enrollment by approximately 5 percen...

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Main Authors:	Fitzsimmons, Emla, Mesnard, Alice
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2016
Subjects:	adverse consequences adverse effects child labor development economics human capital household income labor markets labor supply market failures mortality social safety net unemployment conditional cash transfer
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24194

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spelling	okr-10986-241942021-04-23T14:04:20Z Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence? Fitzsimmons, Emla Mesnard, Alice adverse consequences adverse effects child labor development economics human capital household income labor markets labor supply market failures mortality social safety net unemployment conditional cash transfer This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from a household affects children's school enrollment and work participation in rural Colombia. The results indicate that the permanent departure of the father decreases children's school enrollment by approximately 5 percentage points and increases child labor by 3 percentage points. This paper explores the rollout of a conditional-cash-transfer program during the period of study and shows that this program counteracts these adverse effects. When coupled with other evidence, this finding strongly suggests that the channel through which the father's departure most affects children is by reducing the income of very poor households, which tightens their liquidity constraints. This finding also highlights the important safety-net role played by welfare programs with respect to disadvantaged households, particularly because these households are unlikely to have formal or informal mechanisms with which to insure themselves against such vagaries. 2016-05-03T21:46:35Z 2016-05-03T21:46:35Z 2014-10-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24194 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Colombia
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spellingShingle	adverse consequences adverse effects child labor development economics human capital household income labor markets labor supply market failures mortality social safety net unemployment conditional cash transfer Fitzsimmons, Emla Mesnard, Alice Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?
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description	This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from a household affects children's school enrollment and work participation in rural Colombia. The results indicate that the permanent departure of the father decreases children's school enrollment by approximately 5 percentage points and increases child labor by 3 percentage points. This paper explores the rollout of a conditional-cash-transfer program during the period of study and shows that this program counteracts these adverse effects. When coupled with other evidence, this finding strongly suggests that the channel through which the father's departure most affects children is by reducing the income of very poor households, which tightens their liquidity constraints. This finding also highlights the important safety-net role played by welfare programs with respect to disadvantaged households, particularly because these households are unlikely to have formal or informal mechanisms with which to insure themselves against such vagaries.
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author	Fitzsimmons, Emla Mesnard, Alice
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title	Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?
title_short	Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?
title_full	Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?
title_fullStr	Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?
title_full_unstemmed	Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?
title_sort	can conditional cash transfers compensate for a father's absence?
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?

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