Diego Vera‐Cossio
Biographic Data
| ID | 6369824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diego Vera‐Cossio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diego |
| FAMILY NAME | Vera‐Cossio |
| SIGNATURE | COSSIO D V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Inter-American Development Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5881-6489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shooting a moving target
A key challenge for policymakers in low- and middle-income countries is to design a method to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is unobservable and volatile. We use a unique panel dataset of a random sample of households in Colombia’s social registry that contains information before, during, and after the 2020 economic crisis to evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We consi…
The effects of expanding worker rights to children
Expanding access to identification cards and social programs
We experimentally analyze the effects of an intervention to induce the renewal of identification cards on access to a government social program in Panamá. On‐time renewals and access to government transfers increased by 10 and 3.6 percentage points, respectively. Simple reminders about expiration dates generated larger effects than also enabling individuals to renew their documents through an online platform, which users struggled to use despite …
Dependence or Constraints? Cash Transfers and Labor Supply
Decreases in labor supply among cash transfer recipients are often cited as potential drawbacks of social assistance programs. However, cash transfers can also increase employment. Using variation across cohorts and over time in the eligibility criteria of a nationwide conditional cash transfer program in Bolivian public schools, this paper shows that employment increases among parents of eligible children, particularly for females. The increase …
Stepping up during a crisis
We use a regression discontinuity design to study the impacts of a noncontributory pension program covering one-third of Bolivian households during the COVID-19 pandemic. Becoming eligible for the program during the crisis increased the probability that households had a week's worth of food stocked by 25% and decreased the probability of going hungry by 40%. Although the program was not designed to provide emergency assistance, it provided uninte…
Stepping up during a crisis
We use a regression discontinuity design to study the impacts of a noncontributory pension program covering one-third of Bolivian households during the COVID-19 pandemic. Becoming eligible for the program during the crisis increased the probability that households had a week's worth of food stocked by 25% and decreased the probability of going hungry by 40%. Although the program was not designed to provide emergency assistance, it provided uninte…
Stepping up during a crisis
We use a regression discontinuity design to study the impacts of a noncontributory pension program covering one-third of Bolivian households during the COVID-19 pandemic. Becoming eligible for the program during the crisis increased the probability that households had a week's worth of food stocked by 25% and decreased the probability of going hungry by 40%. Although the program was not designed to provide emergency assistance, it provided uninte…
Dependence or Constraints? Cash Transfers and Labor Supply
Decreases in labor supply among cash transfer recipients are often cited as potential drawbacks of social assistance programs. However, cash transfers can also increase employment. Using variation across cohorts and over time in the eligibility criteria of a nationwide conditional cash transfer program in Bolivian public schools, this paper shows that employment increases among parents of eligible children, particularly for females. The increase …
Shooting a moving target
A key challenge for policymakers in low- and middle-income countries is to design a method to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is unobservable and volatile. We use a unique panel dataset of a random sample of households in Colombia’s social registry that contains information before, during, and after the 2020 economic crisis to evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We consi…
The effects of expanding worker rights to children
Expanding access to identification cards and social programs
We experimentally analyze the effects of an intervention to induce the renewal of identification cards on access to a government social program in Panamá. On‐time renewals and access to government transfers increased by 10 and 3.6 percentage points, respectively. Simple reminders about expiration dates generated larger effects than also enabling individuals to renew their documents through an online platform, which users struggled to use despite …
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Cash transfers (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works)