PMMA-12830 Reduction of child poverty in Serbia: balancing between improved cash-transfers and policies that pro

Abstract

Based on the 2013 Serbian Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC) and on the Serbian version of the EUROMOD platform, we evaluate the poverty and distributive effects on children of various reform (benefit and employment) strategies concerning the two major social benefit programs in Serbia: child allowance and social monetary assistance. Both the first and second-order effects of the proposed reforms are considered. For the second-round impacts, a structural labor supply model on parents has been estimated. Our results show that a benefit strategy (which also combats fiscal evasion) is preferred to an employment strategy which aims at raising the work incentives by parents.

Members

Project leader: Jelena Zarkovic

Project researchers: Marko Vladisavljevic | Jelena Zarkovic | Sasa Randjelovic | Gorana Krstic | Aleksandra Anic

Scientific mentors: Luca Tiberti

Journal publication

Authors	Co-Authors	Title of paper	Title of Economic Review	Bibliographic references
Nicholas-James Clavet	Luca Tiberti, Marko Vladisavljevic, Jelena Zarkovis Rakic, Aleksandra Anic, Gorana Krstic, Sasa Randjelovic	Reduction of child poverty in Serbia: benefit or employment strategy?	Economics of Transition	Volume 27, Issue 3, July 2019 pp. 615-645

Working Papers

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	Reduction of child poverty in Serbia: Improved cash-transfers or higher work incentives for parents?	2017-01-30	2.56MB	0	0

Policy Briefs

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	Reducing child poverty in Serbia: cash transfers or work incentives?	2016-11-18	377.57KB	0	0

Final report

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		2016-09-02	938.18KB	0	0

Proposal

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
		2016-04-29	415KB	1	1