Antipoverty Transfers and Labour Market Outcomes: Regression Discontinuity Design Findings

The article estimates the impact of Familias en Acción, a human development conditional cash transfer programmes, on adult labor market outcomes in urban areas in Colombia. Relying on a regression discontinuity design and a large panel dataset, the article finds significant, largely positive, but heterogeneous programmes effects on labor market outcomes. The findings suggest that antipoverty transfers enable a re-allocation of household productive resources among participant households.

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