Cash Transfer Programme, Productive Activities and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Kenya
基于肯尼亚孤儿及弱势儿童现金转移计划的随机实验数据，发现该计划显著增加了家庭自产食品消费、生产性资产积累和非农创业，减少了童工，但对作物生产影响很小。
This paper reports analysis of the impact of Kenya's Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Programme on the household decisions on productive activities using data from a randomized experimental design. Results show that the programme had a positive and significant impact on food consumption coming from home production, accumulation of productive assets, especially on the ownership of small livestock and on formation of nonfarm enterprise, especially for females. The programme has provided more flexibility to families in terms of labour allocation decisions, particularly for those who are geographically isolated. The programme was also found to have reduced child labour, an important objective of the programme. However we find very little impact of the programme on direct indicators of crop production.