Long-Term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Garima Sharma

American Economic Review: Insights, 2021, vol. 3, issue 4, 471-86

Abstract: 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 ten 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 ten. One main channel for persistence is that treated households take better advantage of opportunities to diversify into more lucrative wage employment, especially through migration.

JEL-codes: I32 I38 J22 J31 O12 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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