There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … empirical underpinning of this claim is a strong inverse relationship at the country level between social transfer targeting and … targeting and redistributive impact over a broad set of empirical specifications, country selections and data sources has in …

-force statistics or on administrative data, but which are relevant for targeting and tailoring support programmes and related policy …

Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy …

-being. We study Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most common childhood mental health condition, and document …

, obligations to participate in active labour market programmes, as well as sanctions for failing to meet these requirements. Such … rules aim to strengthen incentives to look for, prepare for, and accept employment. They may also be used as a targeting … stringent for first-tier programmes. …

efficient targeting in childhood interventions. We define children to be in need of an intervention if they suffer from an …

's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to reduce targeting errors and increase program complementarities …

the resulting fiscal and distributional effects in a comparative context, undertake a microsimulation study to quantify …

modeling assumptions of the error terms. We find the method to outperform common targeting methods, such as proxy means tests … and the targeting method that is currently used by humanitarian organizations in Chad. …