We analyze the impact of the main conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in Colombia (Familias en Acción) on the allocation of time to unpaid work activities by men and women. The program includes a health transfer and an education transfer offered in exchange for meeting conditions (mainly...

This paper examines women?s labor mobility in Argentina in 1995-2003 across 4 sectors: formal, informal, unemployment, and inactivity. We incorporate alternative measures of labor mobility, and estimate a multinomial logit model of sector choice. The results support the hypothesis of segmented...

The Social Safety Net (Red de Protección Social, RPS) program in Nicaragua is one of many conditional cash transfer programs that pay households cash stipends in exchange for school attendance and regular visits to health clinics by the children. A key feature is that payments go to the female...

The Social Safety Net (Red de Proteccioacute;n Social, RPS) program in Nicaragua is one of many conditional cash transfer programs that pay households cash stipends in exchange for school attendance and regular visits to health clinics by the children. A key feature is that payments go to the...