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- Title
Determinants of take-up of welfare programmes: evidence from a conditional cash transfer in Kazakhstan.
- Authors
O'Brien, Clare
- Abstract
Households that are eligible for means-tested benefits do not always take them up, leading to potentially detrimental consequences associated with their unintended exclusion.This paper offers a framework for analysing non-take-up, covering households that are uninformed, misinformed, constrained or uninterested. Using quantitative evidence from an evaluation of a conditional cash transfer in Kazakhstan we compare the characteristics of enrolled and non-enrolled households and demonstrate that, before they receive transfers, households enrolled on that programme are typically less well-off than eligible households that do not join. We then apply the framework to explore qualitatively the reasons why this pattern occurs.
- Subjects
KAZAKHSTAN; PUBLIC welfare; CONDITIONAL cash transfer programs; HOUSEHOLDS -- Social aspects; MEANS tests (Finance); HISTORY of Kazakhstan, 1991-; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of Poverty & Social Justice, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
1759-8273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1332/175982715X14355720956909