Testing Paternalism: Cash versus In-Kind Transfers
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Testing Paternalism: Cash vs. In-kind Transfers
Welfare programs are often implemented in-kind to promote outcomes that might not be realized under cash transfers. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial of a governmental food assistance program to test whether this form of paternalism is necessary, comparing precisely measured consumption and health outcomes under both in-kind food and cash transfers. Importantly, households do not in...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1945-7782,1945-7790
DOI: 10.1257/app.6.2.195