EAG London 2019: Are cash transfers the best policy option? (Sam Carter)
EA Talks
The Potential Downsides of Cash Transfers
conditional cash transfers are designed to do exactly that basically encourage investments in human capital which will ideally help households get out of poverty while still providing consumption support. Do you worry the most about potential downsides such as unequal bargaining power and households potential market failures etc? I haven't seen a bunch of evidence in either direction on the longer term impacts, he says. "How we're measuring these things is also really important whether it's at the household level or the enterprise level will give us potentially different answers" How do you think about the ethical questions bound up in that just to make sure that you are kind of treating people with the sort of agency and individual respect that they deserve yeah.
