Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards

Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards

The authors test whether poor households use cash transfers to invest in income generating activities that they otherwise would not have been able to do. Using data from a controlled randomized experiment, they find that transfers from the Oportunidades program to households in rural Mexico resulted...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gertler, Paul, Martinez, Sebastian, Rubio-Codina, Marta
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AGRICULTURE
ASSETS
CAPITA CONSUMPTION
COMMUNITY LEVEL
CONSUMPTION DATA
CONSUMPTION LEVEL
CONSUMPTION LEVELS
CONSUMPTION MODEL
ECONOMIC SURVEY
FIXED COSTS
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HUMAN CAPITAL
INCOME
INCOME DATA
LAND USE
LIQUIDITY
LIVING STANDARDS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/08/6984762/investing-cash-transfers-raise-long-term-living-standards
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9293

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/08/6984762/investing-cash-transfers-raise-long-term-living-standards
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9293

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