Efficient Responses to Targeted Cash Transfers

We estimate and test the restrictions of a collective model of household consumption, using -conditional demands, in the context of a large conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico. The model can explain the impacts of the program on the structure of food consumption. We use two plausible a...

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Volume:	122
Main Author:	Orazio P. Attanasio Valérie Lechene
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	CHICAGO University of Chicago Press 01.02.2014 UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
published in:	The Journal of political economy Vol. 122; no. 1; pp. 178 - 222
Data of publication:	20140201
ISSN:	0022-3808 1537-534X
EISSN:	1537-534X
Discipline:	Economics Political Science
Subjects:	Meats Total expenditures Households Commodities Secondary schools Children Food consumption Coefficients Food demand Siblings Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Economic aspects Cash transactions Mexico WELFARE TESTS INCOME MODEL INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATIONS EXTENDED FAMILY CONSUMPTION PROGRAM FOOD
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Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS