PIERI-11239 An impact evaluation of PANES

Abstract

The aim of this proposal is to conduct an impact evaluation of an anti-poverty program, Plan Nacional de Atencion a la Emergencia Social, that was deployed during 2005-2007 in Uruguay. The plan includes a wide set of interventions. The main one, Ingreso Ciudadano, is a conditional cash transfer program aimed at alleviating poverty and targeted to indigent population. At present, around 74.500 households receive this transfer (8% of total population). Although the PANES objectives were very ambitiuos, in this proposal we will concentrate on four main outcomes: child labour and school attendance, adult labour supply and informality. The results of this evaluation are key inputs for the redesign of Asignaciones Familiares, a permanent cash transfer that will replace PANES. Our evaluation will be based on the administrative registry, including succesful and unsuccesful applicants and two additional waves of a panel survey to 3500 households. Our identification strategy is based on differences in differences estimators and regression discontinuity.

Members

Project leader: Veronica Amarante

Project researchers: Mery Ferrando | Andrea Vigorito | Arim Rodrigo

Journal publication

Authors	Co-Authors	Title of paper	Title of Economic Review	Bibliographic references
Veronica Amarante	Mery Ferrando,Andrea Vigorito	School attendance, child labor and cash transfers. An impact evaluation of Panes	EconomÃa (LACEA Journal)	Fall 2013, Volume 14, Number 1

Working Papers

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	School Attendance, Child Labor and Cash Transfers. An Impact Evaluation of PANES	2011-12-20	469.54KB	0	0

Policy Briefs

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	School Attendance, Child Labor and Cash Transfers: An Impact Evaluation of PANES	2011-11-10	181.36KB	0	0

Final report

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
		2011-03-24	574.07KB	0	0

Proposal

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		2009-06-29	128.11KB	0	0