Transfers in Cash and in Kind: Theory Meets the Data

By Janet Currie, Firouz Gahvari. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* (2019, unknown): “73See Currie and Gahvari (2008) for a summary of the theoretical and empirical literature debating the desirability of these transfers relative to cash transfers.”
U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs (2015, unknown): “…with the cash-equivalent 27 With underreporting of SNAP and other food and nutrition programs, these are underestimates of the total antipoverty effects (Tiehen, Jolliffe, Smeeding 2013) 28 See also Currie and Gahvari (2008) for an excellent overview of the economics of in-kind transfer programs.”
The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries (2009, unknown): “However, there are many theoretical arguments in favor of transfers in kind (Thurow (1974), Nelson (1987), Currie and Gahvari (2008)), in practice governments use them extensively and, as Knetsch (1995) points out, in many circumstances people seem to prefer non cash to cash transfers of equal…”
Human Capital Development before Age Five. NBER Working Paper No. 15827. (2010, unknown): “Currie and Gahvari (2008) survey the many reasons for this phenomena that have been offered in the Economics literature and conclude that the most likely reasons aid is offered in kind are agency problems, paternalism, and politics.”
The price effects of cash versus in-kind transfers (2011, unknown): “(See Currie and Gahvari (2008) for a nice review of this literature.)”
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research (2011, unknown): “On the other hand, the evidence for this effect is quite weak (Currie and Gahvari, 2008).”
Cash, food, or vouchers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador (2014, unknown): “Policy makers and program implementers seek to change a particular behavior or the consumption of a particular good (Currie and Gahvari, 2008).”
Optimal Labor Income Taxation (2012, background): “Atkinson (1995),Diamond (1998),Piketty (1997),Saez (2001) showed that the optimal nonlinear tax formulas can also be expressed relatively simply in terms of elasticities.”
Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates (2009, unknown): “For a recent survey of the literature on in-kind transfers, see Currie and Gahvari (2008) .”