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100	1		_aBertrand, Marianne. _96180
245	1	0	_aPublic Policy and Extended Families: _bEvidence from South Africa / _cMarianne Bertrand, Douglas Miller, Sendhil Mullainathan.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2000.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w7594
500			_aMarch 2000.
520	3		_aTightly knit extended families, in which people often give money to and get money from relatives, characterize many developing countries. These intra-family flows mean that public policies may affect a very different group of people than the one they target. To assess the empirical importance of these effects, we study a cash pension program in South Africa that targets the elderly. Focusing on three-generation households , we use the variation in pension receipt that comes from differences in the age of the elder(s) in the households. We find a sharp drop in the labor force participation of prime-age men in these households when elder women reach 60 years old or elder mean reach 65, the respective ages for pension eligibility. We also find that the drop in labor supply diminishes with family size, as the pension money is split over more people, and with educational attainment, as the pension money becomes less significant relative to outside earnings. Other findings suggest that power within the family might play an important role: (1) labor supply drops less when the pension is received by a man rather than by a woman; (2) middle aged men (those more likely to have control in the family) reduce labor supply more than younger men; and (3) female labor supply is unaffected. These last two findings also respectively suggest that the results are unlikely to be driven by increased human capital investment or by a need to stay home to care for the elderly. As a whole, this public policy seems to have had large effects on a group-prime age men living with the old-quite different from the one it originally targeted-elderly men and women.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aD1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aE2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aMiller, Douglas.
700	1		_aMullainathan, Sendhil. _917242
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w7594.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w7594
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w7594
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