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This paper estimates the impact of Familias en Accio n, the largest Colombian conditional cash transfer program, on household income. It uses a Quantile Regression methodology and Difference-in-Difference estimators to capture the impact of the program on household income at different quantiles of the income distribution. The estimations show that the program has a positive impact on household income, and that this impact is larger for the households at the lower quantiles of the income distribution. Additional analyses examine whether these results stem from changes in labor market participation or increases in non-labor income. There is some indication that for program participants there was a decrease in labor income, while there was an increase in subsidies or non-labor income. Implications of these findings for conditional cash transfer programs are discussed.

Author

• Hincapie , Diana

Identifier

• Volume 19

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.4079/pp.v19i0.10423

Keyword

• Policy Perspectives
• Economic Policy
• Social Policy

Date created

• 2012

Type of Work

• Article

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/6m311q126

License

• All rights reserved

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