TY  - GEN
AU  - Vera-Cossio, Diego A.
AU  - Hoffmann, Bridget
AU  - Vargas, David
AU  - Beuermann, Diether
AU  - Stampini, Marco
TI  - Research Insights: Can Dynamic Targeting Mechanisms Improve the Social Value of Safety Nets?
PY  - 2024
Y1  - 2024/06/07
DO  - 10.18235/0013011
AB  - Traditional proxy-means tests approaches to selecting beneficiaries of social programs can exhibit higher levels of exclusion errors when income fluctuates. These errors can erode the social value of a safety net. Expanding the coverage of the safety net reduces exclusion errors but entails either larger budgets or substantial reduction of benefits. A dynamic targeting approach that includes updated information on labor market and other shocks can reduce targeting errors and increase the social value of the safety net at a substantially lower cost, relative to an expansion of the safety net.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0013011
ER  -