This article studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on household expenditure on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of North Macedonia that offers cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The recipient is randomised across municipalities, with payments targeted to either the mother or the father of the child. Targeting transfers to women increases the expenditure share on food by 4 to 5 percentage points. At low levels of food expenditure, there is a shift towards a more nutritious diet.
Authors
![Orazio Attanasio](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/Orazio_Attanasio.jpg?itok=Anbs4JXx)
Research Fellow
Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
![Pedro Carneiro](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Pedro_Carneiro.jpg?itok=jj8qq067)
Research Fellow University College London
Pedro is a Professor of Economics at University College London and an economist in the IFS' Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap).
![Valerie Lechene](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-05/Valerie_Lechene.jpg?itok=Di1RhxYE)
Research Fellow University College London
Valerie, a Research Fellow of the IFS, is a Reader at the University College London, whose research is focused on modelling intra-household behaviour.
![Alex Armand](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Alex%20Armand.jpg?itok=tSPQ5C8F)
Research Fellow Nova School of Business and Economics
Alex is an IFS Research Fellow, an Associate Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics and a Research Affiliate at the CEPR.
Journal article details
- DOI
- 10.1093/ej/ueaa056
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- JEL
- D12, D13, E21, O12
- Issue
- Volume 130, Issue 631, October 2020
Suggested citation
Armand, A et al. (2020). 'The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures: evidence from a randomized experiment' 130(631/2020)
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