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Working Paper #2017-040

Rates of return to antipoverty transfers in Uganda

Stephan Dietrich, Daniele Malerba, Armando Barrientos & Franziska Gassmann #2017-040 PDF

A growing literature measures the impact of antipoverty transfer
programmes on variables of interest among participants in low- and
middle-income countries. To date, few studies provide information on net
benefits or rates of return from these programmes. This paper constructs
estimates of rates of return to an antipoverty transfer programme in
Uganda using appropriate welfare weights. Survey and experimental
methods empirically validate the range of welfare weights applied. We
find that rates of return estimates applying appropriate prioritarian
welfare weights are significantly higher than utilitarian rates of
return.

Keywords
  • preference for redistribution
  • welfare weights
  • cash transfers
  • rates of return
  • Uganda
JEL codes
  • D61
  • D63
  • I38
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Dietrich, S., Malerba, D., Barrientos, A., & Gassmann, F. (2017). Rates of return to antipoverty transfers in Uganda (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2017-040). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=7346

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