The Poverty Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers : Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico

The Poverty Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers : Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico

The unique experimental design of the Food Support Programme (Programa de Apoyo Alimentario) is used to analyse in-kind and cash transfers in the poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. The intent-to-treat effect on poverty of cash transfers of real value 25 per cent less than the market valu...

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Main Authors: Skoufias, Emmanuel, Unar, Mishel, González-Cossío, Teresa
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2013
Subjects:
labor supply
cash transfers
consumption
difference-in-differences
in-kind transfers
randomized design
poverty
PAL
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16220

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