The Impact of Shock-Responsive Social Cash Transfers: Evidence from an Aggregate Shock in Kenya.
This study examines the effects of a nationwide shock-responsive social cash transfer scheme during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on highly risk susceptible informal economy households in Kenya. Leveraging primary in-person survey data in a doubly robust difference-in-differences framework, we...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 61; no. 12; pp. 2010 - 2035 |
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