Do Public Transfers Crowd Out Private Transfers?: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico

Insurance Against Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Albarran, Pedro ^a   Attanasio, Orazio P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UCL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mexico; Private transfer; Public transfer; Welfare programme

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859615479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199276838.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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