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Targeting and Self-Targeting in a New Social Assistance Scheme

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Micklewright, John () (University of Southampton and IZA Bonn)
Coudouel, Aline (World Bank)
Marnie, Sheila (UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre)

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The analysis of targeting of cash benefits is typically silent on whether any success is due to encouraging claims from the poor or to the decisions of administrators on the claims they receive. By contrast, the paper models the probabilities of households’ knowledge of a new social assistance scheme, of a claim conditional on knowledge, and of an award conditional on knowledge and claim. It uses household survey data from Uzbekistan where a new social assistance benefit is administered by community organisations. The paper therefore also illustrates problems of design of decentralised social assistance schemes in developing countries.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1112.

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Keywords: targeting; self-targeting; social assistance; Uzbekistan;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
O15 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
P35 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Public Finance

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  1. Micklewright, John & Ismail, Suraiya, 2001. "What Can Child Anthropometry Reveal about Living Standards and Public Policy? An Illustration from Central Asia," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 47(1), pages 65-80, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Duclos, Jean-Yves, 1995. "Modelling the take-up of state support," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(3), pages 391-415, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Aline Coudouel & Sheila Marnie & John Micklewright, 1998. "Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: the Mahallas in Uzbekistan," Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series iopeps98/4, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Galasso, Emanuela & Ravallion, Martin, 2005. "Decentralized targeting of an antipoverty program," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(4), pages 705-727, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Alderman, Harold, 2002. "Do local officials know something we don't? Decentralization of targeted transfers in Albania," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 83(3), pages 375-404, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Coady, David P. & Parker, Susan W., 2005. "Program participation under means-testing and self-selection targeting methods," FCND discussion papers 191, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]
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  2. David Coady & Susan Parker, 2009. "Targeting Social Transfers to the Poor in Mexico," IMF Working Papers 09/60, International Monetary Fund. [Downloadable!]
  3. David Coady & Cesar Martinelli & Susan Parker, 2008. "Information and participation in a social program," Working Papers 0806, Centro de Investigacion Economica, ITAM. [Downloadable!]
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