Economics · Macroeconomics

Cash Transfers vs In-Kind Aid — A Welfare Lab

Design Costaria CO$ 2 billion poverty-reduction program. Confront the modern evidence base — cash, conditions, kind — and the design details that matter more than the binary.

3 rounds Executive English, Español
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Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Cash share of CO$ 2B (%)
  • Conditionality
  • Targeting method
  • Delivery channel
  • Built-in evaluation

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Articulate the in-kind position before you dismiss it
  • Design the portfolio
  • Round-by-round welfare score
  • Poverty headcount reduction (pp)

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Macroeconomics.

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