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- Title
Estimates of the Benefit Incidence of Workfare.
- Authors
RONCONI, LUCAS
- Abstract
The article studies the effectiveness of a public works program called Programa Trabajar implemented in Argentina in 1996 and expanded in 2001. The program was directed toward the poor and employed people and aimed to increase the current income of recipients. The author found an average treatment effect on current income of 60 pesos monthly. Sample from the Argentine Ministry of Labor, Employment, and Social Protection (MOL) may reportedly be biased toward excluding participants who entered the program due to political favoritism.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; PUBLIC works; EMPLOYMENT of welfare recipients; INCOME; ARGENTINIAN economy, 1983-; SOCIAL conditions in Argentina, 1983-
- Publication
Economia, 2009, Vol 9, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
1533-6239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/eco.0.0029