🚨 Excited to share my job market paper! “Cash transfers and women’s labour supply: evidence from the world’s largest programme” (drive.google.com/file/d/1ksDE...) It has been awarded the EEA/Unicredit Foundation’s Best JMP Award. A thread summarising my findings 👇: (1/13) - ThreadSky

leitemariante.bsky.social • 91 days ago

🚨 Excited to share my job market paper!

“Cash transfers and women’s labour supply: evidence from the world’s largest programme” (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ksDE04JpNU15DeuRuX6pX-_JhsQToMci/view)

It has been awarded the EEA/Unicredit Foundation’s Best JMP Award.

A thread summarising my findings 👇: (1/13)

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leitemariante.bsky.social•91 days ago

Cash transfer programmes are effective at short-term poverty alleviation – but what is their impact on labour supply? Unclear - on one hand, it can be negative via an income effect; on the other, it can be positive by reducing barriers to work (e.g. funding childcare). (2/13)

leitemariante.bsky.social•91 days ago

This suggests the effect depends on whether people are facing constraints that keep them out of work.

In Brazil, there is a clear gender divide in these constraints: women are 3x more likely to report being unavailable to work than men, overwhelmingly due to caring duties (3/13)

leitemariante.bsky.social•91 days ago

In 2014, the government expanded its main unconditional cash transfer – part of Bolsa Familia - by increasing the income threshold for eligibility. I compare what happened to the employment of people who became eligible vs people who "just" missed it. (4/13)

leitemariante.bsky.social•91 days ago

The result is striking: women increase formal employment by 7.6%, but there's no significant effect on men (5/13)

leitemariante.bsky.social•91 days ago

What drives the results? Using surveys on expenditure, work availability and school enrolment, I show that recipients are: 1. more likely to spend on kid's education, 2. more likely to have kids enrolled in school, and 3. less likely to report being unavailable to work (6/13)

leitemariante.bsky.social•91 days ago

This shows women use the transfer to pay for kid's schooling, and free up time for paid work. These expenditures are mainly on fixed costs like school material, uniform and after-school activities, which can be a big share of their budget - up to 20% of hh income. (7/13)

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