Do benefit recipients change their labor supply after receiving the cash transfer? Evidence from the Peruvian Juntos program

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Table 5 Effects of temporal distance between pay and reference week on working for paid activities

	All individuals			Recipients			Recipients’ partners
Transfer occurred:	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)
One week before the reference week	0.027	0.070	0.070	-0.019	-0.015	-0.015	0.004	0.028	0.027
	(0.035)	(0.065)	(0.065)	(0.037)	(0.062)	(0.062)	(0.016)	(0.024)	(0.024)
During the reference week	-0.020	-0.062	-0.062	-0.030	-0.086	-0.086	-0.026	-0.003	-0.005
	(0.037)	(0.065)	(0.065)	(0.037)	(0.064)	(0.064)	(0.021)	(0.026)	(0.026)
At least one week after the reference week	0.005	-0.029	-0.029	0.001	-0.081	-0.081	-0.003	0.001	0.010
	(0.034)	(0.065)	(0.065)	(0.035)	(0.065)	(0.065)	(0.016)	(0.019)	(0.021)
Municipality fixed effects	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Additional controls	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Observations	1,577	1,577	1,577	827	827	827	750	750	750
R-squared	0.001	0.047	0.047	0.001	0.358	0.358	0.004	0.402	0.436

Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. See additional notes on Table 3.
***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1.