Social Protection in a Crisis : Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas

By M. Ravallion, E. Galasso. 2003

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Galasso and Ravallion assess the impact of Argentina's main social policy response to the severe economic crisis of 2002. The program aimed to provide direct income support for families with dependents for whom the head had become unemployed due to the crisis. Counterfactual comparisons are based on a matched subset of applicants not yet receiving the program. Panel data spanning the crisis are also used. The authors find that the program reduced aggregate unemployment, though it attracted as many people into the workforce from inactivity as it did people who would have been otherwise unemployed. While there was substantial leakage to formally ineligible families, and incomplete coverage of those eligible, the program did partially compensate many losers from the crisis and reduced extreme poverty. This paper is a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group. The work reported is part of the ex-post evaluation of the World Bank's Social Protection IV Project in Argentina.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. A. Barrientos
2. Margaret E. Grosh
3. C. Ninno
4. E. Tesliuc
5. Emmanuel Skoufias
6. Joseph S. Shapiro
7. Kathy A. Lindert
8. A. Ouerghi

In Safety Research

1. A. Barrientos
2. Margaret E. Grosh
3. Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
4. C. Ninno
5. Rebecca Furst-Nichols
6. M. Buvinić
7. E. Tesliuc
8. Emmanuel Skoufias

In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Barrientos
2. Margaret E. Grosh
3. C. Ninno
4. E. Tesliuc
5. A. Ouerghi
6. Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
7. Rebecca Furst-Nichols
8. M. Buvinić

Citations in the corpus

• Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database (2010, background): “Programme and Evaluation Sources González Pampillón, N. (2007), Income Transfer Policy impact on education: The Uruguayan Case “Asignaciones Familiares”, Universidad de Montevideo , available at : http://www.”
• Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works? (2014, background): “…by Sectoral Library Rm MC-C3-220 user on 06 October 2017 simple, clever design features that help women overcome family and social pressures as well as the mobility constraints that impede women from growing their earnings in poorer and/or more socially conservative settings.”
• Redistributing income to the poor and the rich : public transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean (2006, methodology): “An analysis by Galasso and Ravallion (2004) shows that about 1⁄2 of its beneficiaries would have been otherwise unemployed (without the program).”
• For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008, methodology): “For an example of comparing survey and administrative data to assess the representativeness of the former, see Galasso and Ravallion (2004).”
• Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs (2005, unknown): “In another example, Galasso and Ravallion (2004) evaluated a large”