Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program
Cash transfers are a key component of social protection policy in many developing countries. Yet many policymakers are concerned that continued receipt of such transfers may have unintended consequences, such as a reduction in labor supply when household income rises. We study this question by evalu...
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| author | Ambler, Kate de Brauw, Alan |
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| description | Cash transfers are a key component of social protection policy in many developing countries. Yet many policymakers are concerned that continued receipt of such transfers may have unintended consequences, such as a reduction in labor supply when household income rises. We study this question by evaluating the impact of Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Program(BISP), a cash transfer program targeted to poor, married women,on male and female labor supply. The BISP was implemented via a mechanism that reliedon a poverty score cutoff to determine eligibility, allowing for the identification of causal impacts using regression discontinuity. We find no impacts on household labor supply in the aggregate. When we break up estimates by gender, we find littleevidence of a changein female labor supply, strongevidence of increased male labor supply, and no evidence of changes to child labor. Hence, policy makers should not be concerned that BISP transfers negatively affect labor supply among recipients. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1471302025-11-06T05:14:19Z Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program Ambler, Kate de Brauw, Alan child labour households social protection developing countries cash transfers women Cash transfers are a key component of social protection policy in many developing countries. Yet many policymakers are concerned that continued receipt of such transfers may have unintended consequences, such as a reduction in labor supply when household income rises. We study this question by evaluating the impact of Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Program(BISP), a cash transfer program targeted to poor, married women,on male and female labor supply. The BISP was implemented via a mechanism that reliedon a poverty score cutoff to determine eligibility, allowing for the identification of causal impacts using regression discontinuity. We find no impacts on household labor supply in the aggregate. When we break up estimates by gender, we find littleevidence of a changein female labor supply, strongevidence of increased male labor supply, and no evidence of changes to child labor. Hence, policy makers should not be concerned that BISP transfers negatively affect labor supply among recipients. 2019-03-08 2024-06-21T09:11:29Z 2024-06-21T09:11:29Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147130 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152032 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ambler, Kate; and de Brauw, Alan. 2019. Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1815. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147130 |
| spellingShingle | child labour households social protection developing countries cash transfers women Ambler, Kate de Brauw, Alan Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program |
| title | Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program |
| title_full | Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program |
| title_fullStr | Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program |
| title_full_unstemmed | Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program |
| title_short | Household labor supply and social protection: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP cash transfer program |
| title_sort | household labor supply and social protection evidence from pakistan s bisp cash transfer program |
| topic | child labour households social protection developing countries cash transfers women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147130 |
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