Long-term effects of the targeting the ultra poor program
By: Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther and Sharma, Garima
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BookPublisher: The American Economic Review: Insights Description: 3(4), Dec, 2021: p.471-486.Subject(s): Ultra poor program, Poor, Poverty
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The American Economic Review: InsightsSummary: 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. – Reproduced
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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. – Reproduced
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