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Session Title: Evaluation of Social and Economic Security Programs: International Examples
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Multipaper Session 602 to be held in Suwannee 17 on Friday, Nov 13, 3:35 PM to 4:20 PM
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Sponsored by the Human Services Evaluation TIG
and the International and Cross-cultural Evaluation TIG
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| Chair(s): |
| Vajeera Dorabawila,
Bureau of Evaluation and Research, vajeera.dorabawila@ocfs.state.ny.us
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| Discussant(s): |
| Dale Hill,
World Bank, dhill@worldbank.org
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Incentives Work! Given the Right Context: Motivation for Increased Retraining for Social Security Recipients in Denmark
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| Rasmus Doerken, The National Evaluation Institute of Local Government, rd@krevi.dk
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| Abstract:
KREVI has evaluated a common tool in public policy regulation: economic incentives as a means to encourage a specific behaviour. The evaluation gives important insights in the consequences of economic incentives and shows how evaluations can be strengthened using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods.
In Denmark 98 municipalities are responsible for social security payment for uninsured, unemployed workers. The payments are partly refunded by the State. The project evaluates the results of a change in the fiscal refund of social security, initiated because the government wanted to increase the municipal incentives to re-train social security recipients. The change increased or decreased the refund dependent on the recipients' status as either in re-training programs or not.
The evaluation shows that the economic incentive - in general - did not increase the percentage of social security recipients in re-training programs. However, the same quantitative data shows that in a few municipalities the economic motivation dramatically increased re-training. On the basis of the data, 8 municipalities were selected for the qualitative part of the project with the purpose of explaining how, when and why the incentive did work.
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Promoting Social Rights and Tackling the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Lessons Learned From the Implementation of Ciudadanía Porteña
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| Irene Novacovsky, Buenos Aires City Government, irenenovac@yahoo.com.ar
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The paper reviews the results of a recent impact evaluation of Ciudadanía Porteña. This is a conditional cash transfer program (CCT), which targets poor and extremely poor households in the City of Buenos Aires. As a condition to receive the monthly benefit, the beneficiaries must comply with certain commitments and obligations related to education and health, aimed at promoting children rights and interrupting the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
The evaluation methodology of Ciudadanía Porteña comprises a quasi-experimental design that allows to contrast the results and impact of the program between a comparison group and a treatment group. It compares the situation of the target population at the beginning of the program and during its implementation (difference-in-difference estimator). After less than a year of the implementation of Ciudadanía Porteña, the evaluation found a positive impact on poverty reduction and school attendance among beneficiary households.
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