Determinants of take-up of welfare programmes
Evidence from a conditional cash transfer in Kazakhstan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12937697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare O’Brien (Oxford Policy Management, corresponding author), Luca Pellerano (Oxford Policy Management) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 89-104 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-8273 • E-ISSN: 1759-8281 |
| Publisher | Policy Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/175982715x14355720956909 |
| OpenAlex | W4248971600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Households that are eligible for means-tested benefits do not always take them up, leading to potentially detrimental consequences associated with their unintended exclusion. This paper offers a framework for analysing non-take-up, covering households that are uninformed, misinformed, constrained or uninterested. Using quantitative evidence from an evaluation of a conditional cash transfer in Kazakhstan we compare the characteristics of enrolled and non-enrolled households and demonstrate that, before they receive transfers, households enrolled on that programme are typically less well-off than eligible households that do not join. We then apply the framework to explore qualitatively the reasons why this pattern occurs
Business · Cash · Cash transfers · Conditional cash transfer · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Political science · Poverty · Public economics · Transfer (computing · Unintended consequences · Welfare · Agricultural risk and resilience · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |