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| dc.title | Another Brick on the Wall: On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being |
| dc.contributor.author | Bando, Rosangela |
| dc.contributor.author | Galiani, Sebastián |
| dc.contributor.author | Gertler, Paul |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness |
| dc.coverage | Paraguay |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-06T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2021-03-06T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | Public expenditures on non-contributory pensions are equivalent to at least 1 percent of GDP in several countries in Latin America and is expected to increase. We explore the effect of non-contributory pensions on the well-being of the beneficiary population by studying the "Pensiones Alimentarias" program established by law in Paraguay, which targets older adults living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved subjective well-being in 0.48 standard deviations. These effects are consistent with the findings of Bando, Galiani and Gertler (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico. Thus, we conclude that the effects of non-contributory pensions on well-being in Paraguay are comparable to those found for Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity. |
| dc.format.extent | 37 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003082 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Another-Brick-on-the-Wall-On-the-Effects-of-Non-Contributory-Pensions-on-Material-and-Subjective-Well-Being.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Mental Health |
| dc.subject | Impact Evaluation |
| dc.subject | Poverty |
| dc.subject | Pension Systems |
| dc.subject | Household Income |
| dc.subject | Non Contributory Pension |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I1 - Health |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty |
| dc.subject.jelcode | H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents |
| dc.subject.jelcode | H4 - Publicly Provided Goods |
| dc.subject.keywords | Poverty;Non-contributory pensions;Mental health;Well-being |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | IDB-WP-01212 |
| idb.operation | BK-C2031 |