July 1999 - A workfare program was introduced in response to high unemployment in Argentina. An ex-post evaluation using matching methods indicates that the program generated sizable net income gains to generally poor participants. Jalan and Ravallion use propensity-score matching methods to...

This article shows that, using a poverty map and the corresponding spending allocation across geographic areas, one can identify the latent differences in mean program grants to the poor and the nonpoor. An application to an antipoverty program in Argentina is used to assess the program's...