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Author-Name: Dietrich, Stephan
Author-Email: dietrich@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Author-Name: Malerba, Daniele
Author-Email: daniele.malerba@die-gdi.de
Author-workplace-name: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
Author-Name: Barrientos, Armando
Author-Email: a.barrientos@manchester.ac.uk
Author-workplace-name: University of Manchester
Author-Name: Gassmann, Franziska
Author-Email: gassmann@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Title: Rates of return to antipoverty transfers in Uganda
Abstract: A growing literature measures the impact of antipoverty transfer programmes
	 on variables of interest among participants in low- and middle-income countries.
	 To date, few studies provide information on net benefits or rates of return from
	 these programmes. This paper constructs estimates of rates of return to an
	 antipoverty transfer programme in Uganda using appropriate welfare weights.
	 Survey and experimental methods empirically validate the range of welfare weights
	 applied. We find that rates of return estimates applying appropriate prioritarian
	 welfare weights are significantly higher than utilitarian rates of return.
Keywords: poverty, income distribution, preference for redistribution, welfare, welfare weights,
	 cash transfers, rates of return, Uganda
Classification-JEL: D61, D63, I38, O15
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20170920
Number: 2017-040
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2017/wp2017-040.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2017040