Poverty-Dominant Marginal Transfer Reforms in Socially Risky Situations

Paul Makdissi () and Quentin Wodon

A chapter in Productivity and Inequality, 2018, pp 157-167 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Public transfer programs have a dual objective of redistributing income and providing insurance when individual incomes are subject to variability. To our knowledge, the normative literature on marginal policy reform has not yet provided a method to account for individual’s exposure to risk in the evaluation of public transfer programs. Stochastic dominance tests are proposed to identify robust marginal poverty-reducing transfer reforms in socially risky situations.

Keywords: Poverty; Policy reform; Risk; Stochastic dominance; H23; I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68678-3_7

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