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Long-Term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Sharma, Garima - 2022
households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090779
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Income, Liquidity, and the Consumption Response to the 2020 Economic Stimulus Payments
Baker, Scott R. - 2020
stimulating aggregate consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835110
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Girl Power : Cash Transfers and Adolescent Welfare. Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Experiment in Malawi
Baird, Sarah - 2013
Interventions targeting adolescent girls are seen as a key component in the fight to break the cycle of poverty in developing countries. Policies that enable them to reach their full potential can have a strong impact not only on their own wellbeing, but also on that of future generations. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075415
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Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income : Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2015
We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs for prototypical analyses of low-income populations using the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics. We link administrative data for food stamps, TANF, General Assistance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013166
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The Long Term Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families
Aizer, Anna - 2014
We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity, educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual-level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers' Pension program--the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054044
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The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Busso, Matias - 2014
This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality in the retail sector. We randomized the entry of 61 firms into 72 markets serving the beneficiaries of a conditional cash transfer program in the Dominican Republic. Six months after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055197
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The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor
Aizer, anna_aizer@brown.edu - 2020
All redistributive and social insurance programs trade off the potential benefits of transfers with the disincentives these programs generate. We investigate this trade-off using newly collected lifetime data for 16,000 women who applied to the Mothers' Pension Program, the first cash transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828466
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Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Medina, Carlos; … - 2023
education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356440
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Non-Parametric Demand Analysis with an Application to the Demand for Fish
Angrist, Joshua D.; Graddy, Kathryn; Imbens, Guido W. - 2022
estimates of average derivatives in a simultaneous equations model. These ideas are illustrated using data from the Fulton Fish … market in New York City to estimate an average elasticity of wholesale demand for fresh fish. The weighting function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310025
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Relative Wage Movements and the Distribution of Consumption
Attanasio, Orazio - 2010
distribution of household consumption. The analysis integrates the labor economics literature on time variation in the wage … structure with the consumption insurance literature. In contrast to previous tests of consumption insurance, we examine the … longitudinal data with high quality information on both consumption and labor market outcomes, we draw upon the best available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139905