Do private transfers 'displace' the benefits of public transfers? Evidence from South Africa

By Robert T. Jensen. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Cash, food, or vouchers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador (2014, unknown): “In Mexico and South Africa, public transfer programs have been found to crowd out private transfers (Albarran and Attanasio, 2003; Jensen, 2004) which is consistent with models of altruism and perfect and imperfect risk sharing.”
How well do children insure parents against low retirement income? An analysis using survey data from urban China (2006, background): “Examining child labor supply and school enrollment outcomes using the same data source from South Africa, Edmonds (in press) does not find evidence that the potential endogeneity of living arrangements and pension receipt is a serious source of bias. are not fully insured.”
Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries (2013, unknown): “For example, Jensen (2004) analyzes what happened to transfers from adult children to elderly parents after the end of apartheid in South Africa, a moment when”
Impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program: the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social (2004, background): “Last, we assessed the effect of the program on transfer or remittance behavior; cash transfers may crowd out remittances received by the household (Jensen 2003).”
The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme (2016, background): “, Kling et al., 2007; Anderson, 2012; Hoynes et al., 2016), this comprehensive measure by aggregating multiple measures could improve statistical power, and Poterba et al. (2013) also show that this measure is strongly associated with current health status and future mortality.”
The Economics of Migrants' Remittances (2005, background): “By contrast, Jensen (2003) finds evidence that public pensions crowd out private transfers in South Africa, but only partially (by about a quarter to a third).”
Child labor and schooling responses to anticipated income in South Africa (2006, background): “…other studies that use the OAP to identify income effects have documented sharing of the pension income with co-resident adults (Lund 1993, Case 2001, Bertrand, Mullainathan, and Miller 2003), across households (Jensen 2004, Edmonds, Mammen, and Miller 2005), and with children (Duflo 2000, 2003).”
Labour migration and households: A reconsideration of the effects of the social pension on labour supply in South Africa (2006, background): “pension “crowds out” remittance income ( Jensen, 2003; Posel, 2001a), but we do not”
Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions (2008, background): “Consider three studies from the middle of the distribution: Clarke and Wallsten (2003), Jensen (2004) and McKernan, Pitt and Moskowitz (2004).”
Parenting style as an investment in human development (2018, background): “For example, public transfers are likely to at least partially crowd out private transfers between family members (see Jensen 2004 for a review).”