information before, during, and after the 2020 economic crisis. Updating the PMT data does not improve social welfare relative to … increases social welfare. A dynamic method that uses data on shocks to estimate a variable component of income reduces exclusion … errors and limits the expansion in coverage, increasing social welfare during the economic crisis. We consider these …

, which grows to 10ppts four years after. This is not enough to offset the loss in income on average, and income poverty rises …

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …

to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

We study the impact of welfare payments in Ecuador on the probability that women and men work, and on whether they are … sources of data spanning more than 10 years. We find no evidence that welfare discouraged work. However, among women, welfare …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …