I am a research fellow at the Centre of Economics and International Studies.

I've earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. My research interests include labour economics, impact evaluation of public policy, development economics and applied microeconometrics.

I have worked as a consultant for international organizations, such as the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the inter-agency (ILO-UNICEF-WB) project Understanding Children’s Work (UCW).

Session II - The Heterogeneous impact of cash transfer 26/10/2017 11:45 - 13:45

Heterogeneous impact of unconditional cash transfer: evidence from a randomized experiment in
Lesotho

In this study, we estimate the impact of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional cash transfer randomly assigned to poor households in Lesotho, on child labour and education. We theoretically and empirically show that heterogeneous impacts by income can go in the opposite direction with respect to the current literature: we find that extremely poor households do not increase children’s human capital, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education.

The main contribution of this study is to shed a light on the importance of the transfer unconditionality, the initial economic condition of beneficiaries and the adequacy of the transfer size. The unconditionality makes the transfer a pure income effect, which, depending on the initial economic condition of households and the transfer size, results in different changes on children’s time allocation according to its most efficient use. This is the first attempt to analyse heterogeneous impacts on child labour of unconditional cash

Other speakers in this session:

Noemi Pace (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice - FAO)
Does “Soft Conditionality” Increase the Impact of Cash Transfers on Desired Outcomes? Evidence
from a Randomized Control Trial in Lesotho

Giuseppe Dachille, (University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and ICID)
Revisiting the impact of Oportunidades/Prospera on children's activity in Mexico. Evidence from
nationally representative data