Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/264560 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of International Development [ISSN:] 1099-1328 [Volume:] 34 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [Place:] Hoboken, USA [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 550-563
Publisher: 
Wiley Periodicals, Inc., Hoboken, USA
Abstract: 
A growing impact evaluation literature on antipoverty transfer programmes in low‐ and middle‐income countries measures changes in utilitarian terms, at their unit value. The paper argues that valuing antipoverty transfers is more appropriately done within a framework of prioritarian social welfare functions, as the very presence of these programmes indicates that polities place a greater value on gains and losses among the disadvantaged. The paper applies this framework to the Senior Citizen Grant in Uganda, including survey and experimental work throwing light on social preferences for redistribution. It finds that default utilitarian valuation significantly underestimates the social value of transfer programmes.
Subjects: 
antipoverty transfers
preferences for redistribution
priority
rate of return
Uganda
welfare weights
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