Minimum eligibility age for social pensions and household poverty: Evidence from Mexico.
This paper examines the impact of social pensions on old‐age poverty. To achieve causal identification, we leverage the reduction in the minimum eligibility age of Mexico's flagship non‐means‐tested social pension program. We find that the program's expansion significantly reduced extreme poverty, m...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 175 - 197 |
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