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Shooting a moving target : choosing targeting tools for social programs

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A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...

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How to best fight poverty : the uneven ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on labor earnings

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Re-thinking social protection : from poverty alleviation to building resilience in middle-income households

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We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...

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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

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An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This...

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