Can social pensions for the elderly mitigate shocks?: Lessons from Mozambique

Sara Almeida, Hanna Berkel, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino, Telça Massingue and Hilário Muchabel

No wp-2024-90, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This study investigates the contribution of Mozambique's flagship social pension programme, the Programa de Subsídio Social Básico , to building resilience against shocks. Applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to bespoke survey data, we separate direct effects of programme transfers from anticipation effects related to becoming programme-eligible. Our results show that while eligibility is associated with adopting more positive coping strategies, the impact of transfers is mixed.

Keywords: Social protection; Pensions; Mozambique; Old age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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