The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers

Jesse M. Cunha, Giacomo De Giorgi, Seema Jayachandran

NBER Working Paper No. 17456
Issued in September 2011

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We thank Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Liran Einav, Fred Finan, Amy Finkelstein, Ben Olken and seminar participants at Stanford, Houston/Rice, Harvard/MIT, Stockholm University, University of Toronto, Chicago Booth, ITAM, SEDESOL, Banco de Mexico, Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Berkeley, UCSD, Universidad de Chile, RAND, Maryland, NBER Public Economics Program Meeting, MOVE Conference on Development, CEPR Development Economics Conference, and PACDEV for helpful comments. Jose Maria Nunez provided excellent research assistance. Jayachandran acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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