Panel: Economic and Productive Impacts of Anti-Poverty Policy
(Poverty and Income Policy)

Saturday, November 4, 2017: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Burnham (Hyatt Regency Chicago)

*Names in bold indicate Presenter

Panel Organizers:  Sudhanshu Handa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Sudhanshu Handa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Panel Chairs:  Anu Rangarajan, Mathematica Policy Research
Discussants:  Randall Blair, Mathematica Policy Research


Can Unconditional Cash Transfers Lead to Sustainable Poverty Reduction? Evidence from Zambia
David Seidenfeld, American Institutes for Research



Heterogeneous Welfare Dynamics
Linden McBride, Cornell University



Cash Transfer and Household Consumption Mobility: Evidence from Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Program.
Frank Otchere, University of Ghana



Spatially Heterogeneous Effects of a Public Works Program
Joshua D Merfeld, University of Washington


Social protection programs typically have as their primary objective poverty alleviation. But can these programs also lead to productive impacts? If so, what are the key design elements of such programs and which participants benefit the most in terms of economic gains? What groups are particularly susceptible to poverty traps, and what are the implied policy responses? The four papers in this panel address these questions, with careful attention to commonly overlooked heterogeneity, using data from India, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania.


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