The Long Term Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families

We are grateful to a large number of RAs who helped us collect the data for this project. We are also grateful to Federico Bugni and Bo Honoré for their help with the econometric issues. We received many useful comments from Martha Bailey, Hoyt Bleakley, Janet Currie, Robert Jensen, Andrew Foster, Robert Margo and seminar participants at Columbia University, Cornell University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, the London School of Economics, Harvard University, John Hopkins University, the NBER Universities Research Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of California Davis, and L'Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Paris. This project received funding from the California Center for Population Research (CCPR), the Brown University Population Studies and Training Center and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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