Cash Transfers Enable Grandparents to Help Their Children & Grandchildren

The Cash Transfers and Labor Supply: New Evidence on Impacts and Mechanisms by Cuong Viet Nguyen & Finn Tarp looks at how cash transfers, especially if the recipients are elderly, affect the labor supply.

The Vietnamese government has instituted monthly cash transfers to support social protection beneficiaries, including infant children, individuals with disabilities and elderly members from financially disadvantaged households.