This paper studies the impact of distributional policies on social cohesion. The focus is on South Africa, a country with the highest unemployment rate worldwide and a major destination hub for the forcibly displaced. The paper uses a regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility rule of an unconditional cash transfer program (Old Age Pension) together with multiple rounds of the country’s Social Attitudes Survey and estimates the impact...
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2022/06/23
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS10103
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2022/06/23
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Distributional Policies and Social Cohesion in a High-Unemployment Setting
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Agüero,Jorge M.; Fasola,Eniola.
Distributional Policies and Social Cohesion in a High-Unemployment Setting (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10103 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099248306232210489