Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20347 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1112
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The analysis of targeting of cash benefits is typically silent on whether any success is due to encouraging claims from the poor or to the decisions of administrators on the claims they receive. By contrast, the paper models the probabilities of households? knowledge of a new social assistance scheme, of a claim conditional on knowledge, and of an award conditional on knowledge and claim. It uses household survey data from Uzbekistan where a new social assistance benefit is administered by community organisations. The paper therefore also illustrates problems of design of decentralised social assistance schemes in developing countries.
Subjects: 
targeting
self-targeting
social assistance
Uzbekistan
JEL: 
P35
O15
H53
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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