Assessing the Impact of Public Transfers on Private Risk Sharing Arrangements: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico

Marina Pavan and Aldo Colussi
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Aldo Colussi: University of Western Ontario

No 743, 2008 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We adopt a structural estimation approach to studying the effects of public transfers on consumption smoothing, risk sharing and welfare in small village economies. We estimate the key parameters of a dynamic limited commitment model using data gathered as part of the Mexican Progresa program, and take advantage of the randomized experimental design of the data to validate the model using the treatment sample. The limited commitment model enriched to allow for unobserved heterogeneity in preferences can reasonably well explain consumption dynamics and cross-sectional distributions. The estimated model correctly predicts the increase in consumption smoothing and risk sharing within transfers recipients, and the decrease in risk sharing between beneficiaries and non beneficiaries of the program.

Date: 2008
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Working Paper: Assessing the impact of public transfers on private risk sharing arrangements: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico (2011)
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