Seth, S orcid.org/0000-0002-2591-6977 and Tutor, MV (2021) Evaluation of Anti-Poverty Programs’ Impact on Joint Disadvantages: Insights From the Philippine Experience. Review of Income and Wealth, 67 (4). pp. 977-1004. ISSN 0034-6586
Abstract
Anti‐poverty programs increasingly target multiple outcomes to address current and future poverty. Conventional evaluation exercises, however, estimate programs’ impact on outcomes separately. We present a framework, drawing from the counting approach, that captures the joint distribution of outcomes and allows evaluating program impact on the distribution of multiple outcomes. We apply the framework to analyze the Philippine conditional cash transfer program using an embedded randomized control trial survey. We observe that the program induced targeted behavioral changes by reducing overall noncompliances to conditionalities, but did not necessarily benefit the poorer families experiencing a larger number of simultaneous noncompliances. The overall positive impact is achieved by leaving the neediest behind. Our results show the valuable contribution of considering the joint distribution of outcomes in evaluating poverty alleviation programs.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Authors/Creators: |
|
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Review of Income and Wealth published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | conditional cash transfers, joint distribution, multidimensional impact evaluation, Philippines, randomized control trial |
Dates: |
|
Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2020 16:25 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2023 16:03 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/roiw.12504 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168957 |