Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs innovate by conditioning transfers to poor families
on investments in the human capital of children and other family members. The Mexican …

Many development programs that aim to alleviate poverty and improve investments in
human capital consider women s empowerment a key pathway by which to achieve impact …

Cash transfers have become an increasingly important component of social protection
policies in both developed and developing countries. While such programs are often …

We study the effect of wealth on labor supply using the randomized assignment of monetary
prizes in a large sample of Swedish lottery players. Winning a lottery prize modestly reduces …

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare
programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the …

Using an instrumental variables strategy, we estimate the causal effect of income on
children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large …

Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital,
and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor …

We study how Americans respond to idiosyncratic and exogenous changes in household
wealth and unearned income. Our analyses combine administrative data on US lottery …

We discuss the most popular static and dynamic models of household behavior. Our main
objective is to explain which aspects of household decisions different models can account …

We use OLS and logistic regression to investigate variation in husband and wife
perspectives on the division of authority over agriculture-related decisions within …