Heterogeneity in Effects of Poverty-Alleviating Interventions

Robert Garlick, John Walker and Kate Orkin

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, vol. 115, 335-39

Abstract: To what extent are poverty-alleviating interventions general tools? We revisit a 415-village cluster-randomized field experiment involving 8,300 women living in poverty in rural Kenya. We estimate the extent of heterogeneity in a cash transfer intervention, an aspirations-improving workshop, and their combination using median split regressions and causal forests. We find no evidence of heterogeneity with respect to a prespecified set of demographic, psychological, and economic welfare characteristics. We conclude that the poverty-alleviating interventions we consider are general tools that can assist a broad range of households experiencing poverty and economic shocks.

JEL-codes: C93 I32 I38 J16 O12 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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