Is There an Intrahousehold ‘Flypaper Effect’? Evidence from a School Feeding Programme
利用菲律宾学校供餐计划的准实验数据，检验家庭内部是否存在“粘蝇纸效应”，即针对儿童的公共转移是否真的被儿童吸收，结果发现几乎没有家庭内部卡路里再分配，但较贫困家庭中儿童的收益被“征税”更多。
Are public transfers targeted toward children neutralised by the household, as the theory of altruism implies, or is there an intrahousehold "flypaper effect" whereby such transfers "stick" to the child? This paper studies the impact of a school feeding programme on child caloric intake in the Philippines using a quasi-experimental methodology. The empirical results confirm an intrahousehold flypaper effect; indeed, they indicate virtually no intrahousehold reallocation of calories in response to the feeding programme. In poorer households, however, children"s gains from the programme appear to be "taxed" more heavily. Copyright Royal Economic Society 2002