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Spillover Effects of Transfer Programs

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  • Travis Baseler
  • Jules Gazeaud
  • Erik Snowberg

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We derive four facts from experiments on the spillover effects of cash and in-kind transfer programs onto non-recipients: (1) average spillovers on consumption and asset value are negligible; (2) negative psychological spillovers emerge in the longer term among households randomly excluded from transfers by within-village lotteries; (3) these spillovers are concentrated in consumption-poor households; and (4) they do not appear when the selection of transfer recipients is eligibility-based. These findings are consistent with household preferences against within-village randomization of transfers, and point to additional benefits of cluster-level randomized designs over household-level ones.

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  • Travis Baseler & Jules Gazeaud & Erik Snowberg, 2026. "Spillover Effects of Transfer Programs," NBER Working Papers 35681, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:35681
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    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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