The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program : An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades
Most impact evaluations of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) and Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) focus on the returns to increased human capital investments that will be reaped largely or exclusively in the future (e.g., when current children h...
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okr-10986-263712021-06-08T14:42:48Z The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program : An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades Alderman, Harold Behrman, Jere R. Tasneem, Afia CASH TRANSFERS REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAM EVALUATION CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS INEQUALITY HUMAN CAPITAL Most impact evaluations of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) and Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) focus on the returns to increased human capital investments that will be reaped largely or exclusively in the future (e.g., when current children have increased productivities as adults). But the objectives of these programs are not only to increase human capital investments with implications for future levels and distributions of income but also to alleviate current poverty and reduce current inequality. The current distributional gains from such programs depend on the degree of inequality aversion in the social welfare function. Simulations show that, for a range of inequality aversion parameters, the welfare gains from current redistribution for the Mexican PROGRESA CCT program can be as large, or possibly much larger, than the estimated present discounted value of future earnings from human capital investments in lower and upper secondary schooling. These, moreover, are underestimates of the gains from redistribution because, in addition to current gains, such gains will be augmented in the future through the distribution of the returns on the human capital investments induced by cash transfer programs. Therefore, to fully evaluate such programs, it is critical to incorporate the distributional gains, not only the impacts on human capital investments. 2017-04-13T20:34:11Z 2017-04-13T20:34:11Z 2017-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/897871491831102595/The-contribution-of-increased-equity-to-the-estimated-social-benefits-from-a-transfer-program-an-illustration-from-PROGRESA-oportunidades http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26371 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8026 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Mexico |
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CASH TRANSFERS REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAM EVALUATION CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS INEQUALITY HUMAN CAPITAL Alderman, Harold Behrman, Jere R. Tasneem, Afia The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program : An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades |
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Most impact evaluations of Conditional
Cash Transfers (CCTs) and Unconditional Cash Transfers
(UCTs) focus on the returns to increased human capital
investments that will be reaped largely or exclusively in
the future (e.g., when current children have increased
productivities as adults). But the objectives of these
programs are not only to increase human capital investments
with implications for future levels and distributions of
income but also to alleviate current poverty and reduce
current inequality. The current distributional gains from
such programs depend on the degree of inequality aversion in
the social welfare function. Simulations show that, for a
range of inequality aversion parameters, the welfare gains
from current redistribution for the Mexican PROGRESA CCT
program can be as large, or possibly much larger, than the
estimated present discounted value of future earnings from
human capital investments in lower and upper secondary
schooling. These, moreover, are underestimates of the gains
from redistribution because, in addition to current gains,
such gains will be augmented in the future through the
distribution of the returns on the human capital investments
induced by cash transfer programs. Therefore, to fully
evaluate such programs, it is critical to incorporate the
distributional gains, not only the impacts on human capital investments. |
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Working Paper |
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Alderman, Harold Behrman, Jere R. Tasneem, Afia |
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Alderman, Harold Behrman, Jere R. Tasneem, Afia |
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Alderman, Harold |
| title |
The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program : An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades |
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The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program : An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades |
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The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program : An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades |
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The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program : An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades |
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The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program : An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades |
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contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program : an illustration from progresa/oportunidades |
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2017 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/897871491831102595/The-contribution-of-increased-equity-to-the-estimated-social-benefits-from-a-transfer-program-an-illustration-from-PROGRESA-oportunidades http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26371 |
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