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

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that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …

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Shooting a moving target : choosing targeting tools for social programs

Beuermann, Diether W.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Stampini, Marco; … - 2024

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

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Quaranta, Roberto - 2022

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Assessing the effectiveness of social protection measures in mitigating COVID-19-related income shocks in the European Union

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

Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro; Hoffmann, Bridget; … - 2023

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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