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

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

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