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The implementation of social policies is often hampered by the fact that local decision-makers may be unwilling or unable to implement the policy as intended by the central government. In contrast to research that focuses on incentivizing and holding local decision makers accountable, we examine...
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This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take-up of social safety net programs in the presence of potential behavioral biases. We calibrate the key parameters using a randomized field experiment in which 30,000 elderly...
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The analysis of targeting of cash benefits is typically silent on whether any success is due to encouraging claims from the poor or to the decisions of administrators on the claims they receive. By contrast, the paper models the probabilities of households? knowledge of a new social assistance...
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listas de beneficiários. O Brasil, o Suriname, a Argentina, o Chile, a Costa Rica, o Panamá e o Uruguai alcançam de forma … (coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …. Children and Indigenous people are underrepresented, relative to their poverty rate, in the rosters of beneficiaries. Brazil …
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(coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …. Children and Indigenous people are underrepresented, relative to their poverty rate, in the rosters of beneficiaries. Brazil …, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay consistently earn the highest scores across the assessment …
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, Chile, Costa Rica, Panamá y Uruguay obtienen consistentemente las puntuaciones más altas en todas las categorías de … (coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …. Children and Indigenous people are underrepresented, relative to their poverty rate, in the rosters of beneficiaries. Brazil …
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How do administrative burdens influence enrollment in different welfare programs? Who is screened out at a given stage? This paper studies the impacts of increased administrative burdens associated with the automation of welfare caseworker assistance, leveraging a unique natural experiment in...
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This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take-up of social safety net programs in the presence of potential behavioral biases. We calibrate the key parameters using a randomized field experiment in which 30,000 elderly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869003
There has been an ongoing debate among researchers, policy-makers and development partners in low-income countries on whether and to what degree non-contributory social transfers should be targeted to the poor or paid out universally to every citizen or to all citizens in a particular category....
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(coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …. Children and Indigenous people are underrepresented, relative to their poverty rate, in the rosters of beneficiaries. Brazil …, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay consistently earn the highest scores across the assessment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545280