Conditional Cash Transfer programs not only help households to solve poverty deprivations in the short run, but they also can improve capabilities to break poverty traps through the strengthening of productive inclusion in the long run. This paper studies the long-term impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer program, Familias en Acción, among coffee-producing households in Colombia using administrative records from the National Federation of Coffee Growers and Household Social Register from the National Planning Department. With a difference-in-differences identification strategy, the study shows that Familias en Acción increase input use, investment in land, the purchase of high-value productive assets and improve living conditions. Results highlight that contrary to what is established in the routes for overcoming poverty, Productive Inclusion programs should not go after the conditional transfer, both programs should match in time and monitoring results to improve poverty reduction.
publication date
July 26, 2023 12:50 PM
Research
keywords
Impact Evaluation, Difference-in-Difference, Conditional-Monetary-Tranfers, Familias en Acción, Productive Inclusion, Coffee, Rural Development
