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  1. Targeting Impact versus Deprivation
    Author: Haushofer, Johannes; Niehaus, Paul; Paramo, Carlos; Miguel, Edward; Walker, Michael W.
    Published: June 2022
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived" in some sense (e.g., consumption, wealth). A large literature in economics examines how to best identify these households feasibly... more

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    Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived" in some sense (e.g., consumption, wealth). A large literature in economics examines how to best identify these households feasibly at scale, usually via proxy means tests (PMTs). We ask a different question, namely, whether targeting the most deprived has the greatest social welfare benefit: in particular, are the most deprived those with the largest treatment effects or do the "poorest of the poor" sometimes lack the circumstances and complementary inputs or skills to take full advantage of assistance? We explore this potential trade-off in the context of an NGO cash transfer program in Kenya, utilizing recent advances in machine learning (ML) methods (specifically, generalized random forests) to learn PMTs that target both a) deprivation and b) high conditional average treatment effects across several policy-relevant outcomes. We find that targeting solely on the basis of deprivation is generally not attractive in a social welfare sense, even when the social planner's preferences are highly redistributive. We show that a planner using simpler prediction models, based on OLS or less sophisticated ML approaches, could reach divergent conclusions. We discuss implications for the design of real-world anti-poverty programs at scale

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w30138
    Subjects: Armut; Armutsbekämpfung; Öffentliche Sozialleistungen; Wirkungsanalyse; Methodologie; Künstliche Intelligenz; Kenia; Proxy Mean Test; Other; Household; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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  2. General equilibrium effects of cash transfers
    experimental evidence from Kenya
    Author: Egger, Dennis; Haushofer, Johannes; Miguel, Edward; Niehaus, Paul; Walker, Michael W.
    Published: December 2019
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 26600
    Subjects: Öffentliche Sozialleistungen; Ländlicher Raum; Wohlfahrtsanalyse; Kenia
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  3. Twenty year economic impacts of deworming
    Author: Hicks, Joan Hamory; Miguel, Edward; Walker, Michael W.; Kremer, Michael; Baird, Sarah
    Published: July 2020
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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 27611
    Subjects: Gesundheitspolitik; Kinder; Kenia
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  4. Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming
    Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey
    Author: Walker, Michael W.; Huang, Alice H.; Asman, Suleiman; Baird, Sarah; Fernald, Lia C. H.; Hicks, Joan Hamory; Hoces de la Guardia, Fernando; Koiso, Satoshi; Kremer, Michael; Krupoff, Matthew N.; Layvant, Michelle; Ochieng, Eric; Suri, Pooja; Miguel, Edward
    Published: April 2023
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    We assess the impacts of a randomized school-based deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients' children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of over 6,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality rate fell... more

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    We assess the impacts of a randomized school-based deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients' children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of over 6,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality rate fell by 22% (17 deaths per 1000 live births) for children of treatment group individuals. We find that a combination of improved health, education and living standards, increased urban residence, delayed fertility, and greater use of health care in the parent generation contributed to the reduction. The results provide evidence for meaningful intergenerational benefits of child health investments

     
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    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w31162
    Subjects: Gesundheitsvorsorge; Kinder; Kindersterblichkeit; Bildungsniveau; Entwicklung; Kenia; Government Expenditures and Health; Health and Economic Development; Education and Economic Development
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