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Estimating the average treatment effect of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh

Rahman, MM

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Abstract

Since the famine in 1974, the Bangladesh government and some national and international agencies have been providing food, or cash, or both, to poor households through the Social Safety Net programmes. I seek to estimate how much these programmes affect the well-being of poor households. Most previous studies have estimated impacts of these programmes on calorie consumption, simply computing the raw differential. However, both observed and unobserved characteristics bias this treatment effect. Using fuzzy regression discontinuity (RD) design, I control for these selection effects.

Citation

Rahman, M. (in press). Estimating the average treatment effect of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh. Journal of Development Studies, 50(11), 1550-1569. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.887688

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 15, 2013
Online Publication Date Feb 28, 2014
Deposit Date Mar 22, 2023
Journal The Journal of Development Studies
Print ISSN 0022-0388
Publisher Routledge
Volume 50
Issue 11
Pages 1550-1569
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.887688
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.887688