Long-Term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program

Autor:	Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Garima Sharma
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science
Zdroj:	American Economic Review: Insights. 3:471-486
ISSN:	2640-2068 2640-205X
DOI:	10.1257/aeri.20200667
Popis:	This paper studies the long-run effects of a “ big-push” program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over ten years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years following the transfer and persist until year ten. One main channel for persistence is that treated households take better advantage of opportunities to diversify into more lucrative wage employment, especially through migration. (JEL I32, I38, J22, J31, O12, O18)
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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