Household Response to Income Changes: Evidence from an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Kenya ∗

By J. Haushofer, J. Shapiro. 2013

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Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health (2019, background): “This study complements a growing set of studies in the development economics literature that regard economic outcomes as incomplete measurements of welfare (Angelucci et al., 2013; Baird et al., 2013; Devoto et al., 2012; Haushofer and Shapiro, 2013).”
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs Worldwide (2017, unknown): “9 These include Kenya’s Give Directly (Haushofer and Shapiro, 2013), Tanzania’s TASAF (Evans, Hausladen, Kosec, and Reese, 2014), Burkina Faso’s NCTPP (Akresh, De Walque and Kazianga, 2013), Uganda’s cash transfer to pre-schools (Gilligan and Roy, 2013), Zambia’s Child Program (American Institute…”
Universal Basic Income in the Developing World (2019, unknown): “Work in progress by Haushofer et al. (2018) and McIntosh and Zeitlin (2018) will generate some of the first evidence on this point, and we expect it will remain an open area for future work.”
Cash transfers and labor supply: Evidence from a large-scale program in Iran (2018, unknown): “Haushofer and Shapiro (2013) examine the impact of an unconditional cash transfer program in rural Kenya and find that recipients consumed more food, healthcare, and education compared to the control group who did not receive a transfer.”
On the psychology of poverty (2014, unknown): “One such study (32) examined the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program inKenya on psychological wellbeing.”
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient (2015, unknown): “Sampling of beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries was done differently in treatment and control groups in Kenya’s CT-OVC (Asfaw et al. 2014), which led to large baseline imbalances.”
Theories of Poverty Traps and Anti-Poverty Policies (2015, background): “• While long term impacts are yet to be known, at least in the short-run the impacts are quite good in terms helping build assets, encouraging investment in and generating revenue from businesses (Haushofer and Shapiro, 2013).”