Do Workfare Participants Recover Quickly from Retrenchment?
What happens to participants in a workfare program--a program that imposes work requirements on welfare recipients--when that program is cut? The authors compare the incomes of workfare participants in Argentina to those of nonparticipants and past...
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okr-10986-195562021-04-23T14:03:43Z Do Workfare Participants Recover Quickly from Retrenchment? Ravallion, Martin Galasso, Emanuela Lazo, Teodoro Philipp, Ernesto ANTIPOVERTY PROGRAMS BENEFICIARIES DATA COLLECTION ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMICS EVALUATION METHODS EXPERIMENTAL METHODS HOUSEHOLD INCOME INCOME INTERVENTION INTERVIEWING LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKETS LONGITUDINAL DATA MATCHING METHODS PARTICIPATION RATES POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAM EVALUATION PROGRAM IMPACTS SAMPLE SIZE SELECTION BIAS SIMULATIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION SPILLOVER EFFECT TABLES TARGETING TREATMENT EFFECTS URBAN AREAS What happens to participants in a workfare program--a program that imposes work requirements on welfare recipients--when that program is cut? The authors compare the incomes of workfare participants in Argentina to those of nonparticipants and past participants after a severe contraction in aggregate outlays on the program. The authors find evidence of partial income replacement, such that those who left the program were able to make up one quarter of the gross workfare wage within six months. This rises to half in 12 months. The estimates are unbiased in the presence of time-invariant errors from mismatching in the selection of the comparison group. Fully removing selection bias would probably yield even lower income replacement. Test results based on a second follow-up survey that valid inferences can be drawn about program impacts from the authors' measures of income replacement. 2014-08-21T16:59:10Z 2014-08-21T16:59:10Z 2001-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/09/1570717/workfare-participants-recover-quickly-retrenchment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19556 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2672 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean |
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What happens to participants in a
workfare program--a program that imposes work requirements
on welfare recipients--when that program is cut? The authors
compare the incomes of workfare participants in Argentina to
those of nonparticipants and past participants after a
severe contraction in aggregate outlays on the program. The
authors find evidence of partial income replacement, such
that those who left the program were able to make up one
quarter of the gross workfare wage within six months. This
rises to half in 12 months. The estimates are unbiased in
the presence of time-invariant errors from mismatching in
the selection of the comparison group. Fully removing
selection bias would probably yield even lower income
replacement. Test results based on a second follow-up survey
that valid inferences can be drawn about program impacts
from the authors' measures of income replacement. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Ravallion, Martin Galasso, Emanuela Lazo, Teodoro Philipp, Ernesto |
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Ravallion, Martin Galasso, Emanuela Lazo, Teodoro Philipp, Ernesto |
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Ravallion, Martin |
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Do Workfare Participants Recover Quickly from Retrenchment? |
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Do Workfare Participants Recover Quickly from Retrenchment? |
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Do Workfare Participants Recover Quickly from Retrenchment? |
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Do Workfare Participants Recover Quickly from Retrenchment? |
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Do Workfare Participants Recover Quickly from Retrenchment? |
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do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment? |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/09/1570717/workfare-participants-recover-quickly-retrenchment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19556 |
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