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Author-Name: Morel Berendson, Ricardo
Author-Email:  r.morelberendson@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Author-Name: Girón, Liz 
Author-Workplace-Name: World Bank
Title: The multidimensional impacts of the Conditional Cash Transfer program Juntos in 
	 Peru
Abstract: Policy decisions are sensitive to the conceptualization of poverty and,
	 in line with the growing demand for multidimensional poverty
	 measurement, we conducted an impact evaluation of Peru's largest social
	 protection intervention - the conditional cash transfer program 'Juntos'
	 - to further understand its effects on multidimensional poverty. We
	 combine a propensity score matching with a difference-in-difference
	 approach to estimate and compare two multidimensional indices created
	 using the Alkire-Foster method. The first replicates the Global
	 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) while the other is a Juntos-tailored
	 MPI. We do not find robust and statistically significant effects of the
	 program in either index. Despite finding steeper reductions among Juntos
	 beneficiaries, particularly in education and health indicators, these
	 changes cannot be statistically attributed to the program. We further
	 conclude that using a multidimensional poverty index can be a highly
	 useful evaluation tool when thoroughly adapted to the theory of change
	 of the intervention under assessment.
Classification-JEL: I32, I38
Keywords: conditional cash transfers, multidimensional poverty, Juntos, Peru
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20220404
Number: 2022-012
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2022/wp2022-012.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2022012