In recent days, there are discussions on the introduction of school enrolment and attendance as conditionalities for receipt of the CSG. A comparison between the potential labour market effects of the OAP and the CSG, two programmes with different target populations, eligibility rules and more importantly different levels of benefits paid, allows a better understanding of the mechanism through which CTs may affect labour market outcomes. In the case of most emerging economies, where extended families are the norm, spillover effects of CT receipt on other household members can be particularly important if income is pooled in the household.