The effect of welfare payments on work in a middle-income country

The effect of welfare payments on work in a middle-income country

We study the impact of welfare payments in Ecuador on the probability that women and men work, and on whether they are employed in the formal or informal sectors. Our analysis is based on two distinct identification strategies and two separate sources of data spanning more than 10 years. We find no...

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