What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia

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dc.creatorSimons, Andrew M.
dc.date2016-04-01
dc.date2024-06-21T09:25:15Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:25:15Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:43:43Z
dc.descriptionCentralized implementation mandates of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) require a full and uniform payment to each person in an eligible household. In practice, however, communities do not receive enough funding to fully implement the program. Therefore, communities must exercise local discretion in allocating aid. We recover the preferences revealed by local communities’ aid allocations and find they are pro-poor, allocating more to underprivileged groups with lower wage earning potential (e.g., teenage girls vs. teenage boys, adult women vs. adult men, elderly vs. working age adults). Despite communities’ pro-poor implementation, the program with constrained funding does not significantly lower overall poverty rates. In simulations with full funding, the program reduces poverty in both cases of centralized and decentralized program control, using different criteria for the allocation of funds. The major policy implication is that the financial scale of the safety net program is more important to poverty reduction than the locus of control over implementation.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148621
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/112953
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.publisherEthiopian Development Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceSimons, Andrew M. 2016. What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia. ESSP Working Paper 86. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148621
dc.subjectcosts
dc.subjectwelfare
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectsocial safety nets
dc.subjectfood aid
dc.titleWhat is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia
dc.typeWorking Paper

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