How Do Cash Transfers Affect Child Work and Schooling?

Surprising evidence from Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia, 2020

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Cash transfers supplement household income, but can they also reduce child labour? With generous funding from the United States Department of Labor, researchers at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti evaluated the impact of three large-scale, government cash transfer programmes to answer this question.

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Jacobus de Hoop; Valeria Groppo

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