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Conditional Cash Transfer Programs, Credit Constraints, and Migration
Author(s) -
Angelucci Manuela
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2011.00534.x
Subject(s) - conditional cash transfer , transfer (computing) , poverty , order (exchange) , economics , cash transfers , cash , monetary economics , labour economics , econometrics , demographic economics , finance , computer science , economic growth , parallel computing
This paper models the effect of anti‐poverty conditional cash transfer programs on labor migration. Their effect on migration depends on both the size and type of transfers. Conditional transfers, where the potential recipient has to comply with some requirement in order to qualify for eligibility, may decrease contemporaneous migration for some households, but increase future migration for others. In contrast, unconditional grants may increase current migration.