The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers
dc.contributor.author | Cunha, Jesse M. | |
dc.contributor.author | De Giorgi, Giacomo | |
dc.contributor.author | Jayachandran, Seema | |
dc.date | 2011-09 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-11T15:44:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-11T15:44:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-10-11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86655 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper compares how cash and in-kind transfers affect local prices. Both types of transfers increase the demand for normal goods, but only in-kind transfers also increase supply. Hence, in-kind transfers should lead to lower prices than cash transfers, which helps consumers at the expense of local producers. We test and confirm this prediction using a program in Mexico that randomly assigned villages to receive boxes of food (trucked into the village), equivalently-valued cash transfers, or no transfers. The pecuniary benefit to consumers of in-kind transfers, relative to cash transfers, equals 11% of the direct transfer. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 116 | en_US |
dc.subject | in-kind transfers | en_US |
dc.title | The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | International Policy Center (IPC); Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Stanford University | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Northwestern University | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86655/1/ipc-116-cunha-degiorgi-jayachandran-price-effects-cash-versus-in-kind-transfers.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | International Policy Center (IPC) - Working Paper Series |
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