Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh
Poor households often rely on transfers from their social networks for consumption smoothing, yet there is limited evidence on how antipoverty programs affect informal transfers. This paper exploits the randomized roll-out of BRAC's ultra-poor...
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okr-10986-347342022-09-20T00:11:01Z Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh Gulesci, Selim POVERTY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION SOCIAL ASSISTANCE INFORMAL TRANSFERS INTERHOUSEHOLD TRANSFERS INFORMAL INSURANCE TARGETING SOCIAL PROGRAMS Poor households often rely on transfers from their social networks for consumption smoothing, yet there is limited evidence on how antipoverty programs affect informal transfers. This paper exploits the randomized roll-out of BRAC's ultra-poor graduation program in Bangladesh and panel data covering over 21,000 households over seven years to study the program's effects on interhousehold transfers. The program crowds out informal transfers received by the program's beneficiaries, but this is driven mainly by outside-village transfers. Treated ultra-poor households become more likely to both give and receive transfers to/from wealthier households within their communities; and less likely to receive transfers from their employers. As a result, the reciprocity of their within-village transfers increases. The findings imply that, within rural communities, there is positive assortative matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty enables households to engage more in reciprocal transfer arrangements and lowers the interlinkage of their labor with informal insurance. 2020-11-05T15:58:57Z 2020-11-05T15:58:57Z 2020-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/728131604499775226/Poverty-Alleviation-and-Interhousehold-Transfers-Evidence-from-BRACs-Graduation-Program-in-Bangladesh http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34734 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9467 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 South Asia Bangladesh |
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POVERTY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION SOCIAL ASSISTANCE INFORMAL TRANSFERS INTERHOUSEHOLD TRANSFERS INFORMAL INSURANCE TARGETING SOCIAL PROGRAMS Gulesci, Selim Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh |
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Poor households often rely on transfers
from their social networks for consumption smoothing, yet
there is limited evidence on how antipoverty programs affect
informal transfers. This paper exploits the randomized
roll-out of BRAC's ultra-poor graduation program in
Bangladesh and panel data covering over 21,000 households
over seven years to study the program's effects on
interhousehold transfers. The program crowds out informal
transfers received by the program's beneficiaries, but
this is driven mainly by outside-village transfers. Treated
ultra-poor households become more likely to both give and
receive transfers to/from wealthier households within their
communities; and less likely to receive transfers from their
employers. As a result, the reciprocity of their
within-village transfers increases. The findings imply that,
within rural communities, there is positive assortative
matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty
enables households to engage more in reciprocal transfer
arrangements and lowers the interlinkage of their labor with
informal insurance. |
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Gulesci, Selim |
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Gulesci, Selim |
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Gulesci, Selim |
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Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh |
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Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh |
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Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh |
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Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh |
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Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh |
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poverty alleviation and interhousehold transfers : evidence from brac's graduation program in bangladesh |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2020 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/728131604499775226/Poverty-Alleviation-and-Interhousehold-Transfers-Evidence-from-BRACs-Graduation-Program-in-Bangladesh http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34734 |
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