Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/140649 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 647
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
This study investigates an old question that has re-emerged in social policy-making and in analyses of global social development: to what extent does targeting and size of social transfers matter for poverty? Using multilevel logistic regression and LIS income data for 40 middle- and high-income countries, we show that the size of transfer income has greater explanatory value for cross-country differences in poverty than the degree of targeting of transfer income. The results are remarkably robust in terms of estimated individual-level and country-level compositional and confounding factors.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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