Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) are effective policy instruments to increase schooling outcomes, but are UCTs effective in the long term? This paper provides the first evidence on the long-term schooling impacts of a national cash transfer …
This paper shows that liquidity constraints prevents the poorest households in Malawi from allocating their labor efficiently. Providing cash—with no strings attached—resolve these inefficiencies and boost productivity. Households randomized to …
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have rapidly expanded cash transfer programmes as part of their social protection strategy over the last decade. Currently 46 countries have a state-sponsored social protection programme, compared to just 25 …