The Leaky Bucket
Transition Costs from Cash to Deposits in a Mexican Transfer Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4361847 |
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| Authors | Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Fernanda Márquez‐Padilla (0000-0003-1605-2545, El Colegio de México), Susan W Parker (0000-0001-5622-4220, El Colegio de México) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-59 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/726538 |
| OpenAlex | W4382394477 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
We study the effects of an experimental transition to account deposits from cash on rural women’s receipt of payments and their monetary and time costs of obtaining benefits. The context for our experiment is the Prospera program from Mexico, the pioneering conditional cash transfer program. We find that beneficiaries transitioned to receive deposits incur higher costs of collecting transfers (both time and money) and report feeling significantly less safe when collecting transfers. Furthermore, they are significantly less likely to report receiving their complete transfer, potentially due to bank commissions
Business · Cash · Download · Economics · Operating system · Political science · Sociology · Transfer (computing) · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Finance · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Taxation and Compliance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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