Estimation of rates of return on social protection: ex ante microsimulation of social transfers in Cambodia

The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Adult Labour Supply: A Unitary Discrete Choice Model for the Case of Ecuador

“…They contribute to consumption and assets security, by helping poor households and individuals to access economic opportunities. Finally, social transfers help to cover transaction costs and to protect assets, while facilitating their accumulation, enhancing labour supply and fostering local economy effects (Barrientos (2012), Alderman & Yemtsov (2012), Mideros et al (2013) and Tirivayi (2013)). …”

Asia's Fiscal Challenge:

“…Because of the fiscal implications, governments in countries with a child and youth bulge may find universal cash transfers for children unattractive and unaffordable. Yet this is a rather shortsighted view given the importance of human capital for the economic development of a country and the future returns of investing in the development of children (Dietrich et al 2016;Mideros, Gassmann, and Mohnen 2016).…”

Human capital returns to cash transfers in Uganda: does it matter in the long run?

“…Methodologically, our approach is in line with dynamic discrete choice models (Todd and Wolpin 2010), in which we model behavioural responses to cash benefits in terms of child health and education investments and the returns to programme induced human capital investments. Similar approaches have been used to estimate education choices in Mexico with PROGRESA (Attanasio, Meghir, and Santiago 2011;Todd and Wolpin 2008) and for hypothetical transfer programmes in Cambodia (Mideros, Gassmann, and Mohnen 2016).…”

“…Filipski and Taylor (2012) look at the case of Ghana and Malawi on production and welfare. Long-term simulations include the article by Mideros, Gassmann, and Mohnen (2016) for the case of Cambodia, and Peruffo and Ferreira (2017) for the case of Brazil. Our study does this for the context of Uganda.…”