Manuela Angelucci

This article examines a novel motive for resource pooling in family networks in rural economies: to relax credit constraints and facilitate investment in non‐collateraliseable assets for which credit market imperfections are most binding.

In this paper, we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer programme, Oportunidades, on transfers, savings and consumption for treated households.

We present evidence on whether and how a household's behavior is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family.

A study of conditional cash transfer programmes, specifically their effect on consumption.

This paper presents evidence on whether and how a household's behaviour is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family.

This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, con-sidering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households.