Social protection for the poor: Evaluating Thailand's state welfare card programme

Wannaphong Durongkaveroj and Riswandi Riswandi

No wp-2025-103, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In recent decades, cash transfers have played an important role in enhancing social protection in developing countries. This paper examines the causal effects of Thailand's large-scale unconditional cash transfer programme (“the state welfare card programme”) that covered over 20 percent of the country's population. Using regression discontinuity methods and nationally representative household socio-economic surveys, the results suggest that this programme had a negative and statistically significant impact on total expenditure and food expenditure.

Keywords: Poverty; Cash transfers; Social protection; Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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