Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program / Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Garima Sharma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banerjee, Abhijit.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Duflo, Esther.

Sharma, Garima.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28074.

NBER working paper series no. w28074

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.

Summary:

This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years following the transfer and persist until year 10. One main channel for persistence is that treated households take better advantage of opportunities to diversify into more lucrative wage employment, especially through migration.

Notes:

Print version record

November 2020.