Not Separate, Not Equal: Poverty and Inequality in Post‐apartheid South Africa
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 55, Heft 3, S. 487-529
ISSN: 1539-2988
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In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 55, Heft 3, S. 487-529
ISSN: 1539-2988
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 567-597
ISSN: 1539-2988
In: Journal of development economics, Band 98, Heft 1, S. 89-93
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 265-292
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 140, S. 169-185
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 140, S. 169-185
ISSN: 0304-3878
World Affairs Online
In: IZA Journal of development and migration, Band 8, Heft 1
ISSN: 2520-1786
AbstractᅟThe basic economic model of labor supply has a very clear prediction of what we should expect when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall: they should work less and earn less. This intuition underlies concerns that many types of cash transfers, ranging from government benefits to migrant remittances, will undermine work ethics and make recipients lazy. We discuss a range of additional channels to this simple labor-leisure trade-off that can make this intuition misleading in low- and middle-income countries, including missing markets, price effects from conditions attached to transfers, and dynamic and general equilibrium effects. We use this as a lens through which to examine the evidence on the adult labor market impacts of a wide range of cash transfer programs: government transfers, charitable giving and humanitarian transfers, remittances, cash assistance for job search, cash transfers for business start-up, and bundled interventions. Overall, cash transfers that are made without an explicit employment focus (such as conditional and unconditional cash transfers, and remittances) tend to result in little to no change in adult labor. The main exceptions are transfers to the elderly and to some refugees, who reduce work. In contrast, transfers made for job search assistance or business start-up tend to increase adult labor supply and earnings, with the likely main channels being the alleviation of liquidity and risk constraints.JEL ClassificationO15, J22, I38, H23
Despite their explicit focus on reaching the poor, many community driven development (CDD) initiatives are only partially successful in targeting spending towards them. This paper examines Tanzania's flagship CDD program and provides new evidence on the mechanisms by which the demand-driven components of the program may undermine the goal of pro-poor funding allocations. We exploit two data sources for the analysis: a census of wards for mainland Tanzania and a census of households in 100 program villages. These data paint a consistent picture at both levels: wealth, education, access to media, and political engagement are positively correlated with the likelihood to apply for the program at the national level, and to be aware of it at the local level. Centrally dictated features of the program – namely predetermined funding allocations to districts and eligibility rules – combine with the decentralized selection process within districts to counteract this initially regressive application pattern and produce a program that is, like many other CDD programs, only mildly pro-poor. Our results suggest that sensitization and outreach prior to the application process will be a critical dimension in making CDD programs more progressive.
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The basic economic model of labor supply has a very clear prediction of what we should expect when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall: they should work less and earn less. This intuition underlies concerns that many types of cash transfers, ranging from government benefits to migrant remittances, will undermine work ethics and make recipients lazy. We discuss a range of additional channels to this simple labor-leisure trade-off that can make this intuition misleading in low- and middle-income countries, including missing markets, price effects from conditions attached to transfers, and dynamic and general equilibrium effects. We use this as a lens through which to examine the evidence on the adult labor market impacts of a wide range of cash transfer programs: government transfers, charitable giving and humanitarian transfers, remittances, cash assistance for job search, cash transfers for business start-up, and bundled interventions. Overall, cash transfers that are made without an explicit employment focus (such as conditional and unconditional cash transfers, and remittances) tend to result in little to no change in adult labor. The main exceptions are transfers to the elderly and to some refugees, who reduce work. In contrast, transfers made for job search assistance or business start-up tend to increase adult labor supply and earnings, with the likely main channels being the alleviation of liquidity and risk constraints.
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In: The journal of human resources, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 370-403
ISSN: 1548-8004
In: Journal of development economics
ISSN: 0304-3878
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of development effectiveness, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 1-43
ISSN: 1943-9407
In: Journal of development effectiveness, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 1-43
ISSN: 1943-9342
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of development economics, Band 83, Heft 1, S. 198-213
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 153, S. 102733
ISSN: 0304-3878