Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs
Targeted transfer programs for poor citizens have become increasingly common in the developing world. Yet, a common concern among policy-makers and citizens is that such programs tend to discourage work. We re-analyze the data from seven randomized controlled trials of government-run cash transfer p...
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| author | Hanna, Rema Banerjee, Abhijit Kreindler, Gabriel Emanuel Olken, Benjamin |
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| description | Targeted transfer programs for poor citizens have become increasingly common in the developing world. Yet, a common concern among policy-makers and citizens is that such programs tend to discourage work. We re-analyze the data from seven randomized controlled trials of government-run cash transfer programs in six developing countries throughout the world, and find no systematic evidence that cash transfer programs discourage work. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1138342019-05-17T09:27:05Z Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs Hanna, Rema Banerjee, Abhijit Kreindler, Gabriel Emanuel Olken, Benjamin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Banerjee, Abhijit Kreindler, Gabriel Emanuel Olken, Benjamin Targeted transfer programs for poor citizens have become increasingly common in the developing world. Yet, a common concern among policy-makers and citizens is that such programs tend to discourage work. We re-analyze the data from seven randomized controlled trials of government-run cash transfer programs in six developing countries throughout the world, and find no systematic evidence that cash transfer programs discourage work. 2018-02-20T16:11:29Z 2018-02-20T16:11:29Z 2017-08 2018-02-20T14:41:53Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0257-3032 1564-6971 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113834 Banerjee, Abhijit V. et al. “Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs.” The World Bank Research Observer 32, 2 (August 2017): 155–184 © 2017 The Author OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3847-7763 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkx002 The World Bank Research Observer Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/octet-stream Oxford University Press MIT Web Domain |
| spellingShingle | Hanna, Rema Banerjee, Abhijit Kreindler, Gabriel Emanuel Olken, Benjamin Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs |
| title | Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs |
| title_full | Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs |
| title_fullStr | Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs |
| title_short | Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs |
| title_sort | debunking the stereotype of the lazy welfare recipient evidence from cash transfer programs |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113834 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3847-7763 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631 |
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