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© 1999 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank

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Benefit Incidence, Public Spending Reforms, and the Timing of Program Capture

Peter Lanjouw and Martin Ravallion

Peter anjouw and Martin Ravallion are with the Development Research Group at the World Bank. This article was prepared as an input to the World Bank's 1998 Poverty Assessment for India. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the World Bank's Research Committee (under RPO 681–39) and the comments of Zoubida Allaohua, Francisco Ferriera, Jenny Lanjouw, Valerie Kozel, Ricardo Paes de Barros, Lant Pritchett, Kalanidhi Subbarao, Dominique van de Walle, and three anonymous referees.

Assessments of the distributional effects of public spending reforms have generally been based on average rates of program participation by income or expenditure group. This practice can be deceptive because the socioeconomic composition of participants can change as a social program expands or contracts. The geographic variation found in 1993–94 household survey data for rural India is used to estimate the marginal odds of participating in schooling and antipoverty programs. The results suggest early capture of these programs by the nonpoor. It is shown that conventional methods for assessing benefit incidence underestimate the gains to the poor from higher public outlays and underestimate the losses from cuts.


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