Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

8-2003

Abstract

Understanding private transfer is important for safety-net policies because private transfer provides economic benefits similar to those of public programs such as unemployment insurance and pension. Applying Honoré’s [Econometrica 60 (1992) 533] panel fixed-effect censored model estimator to Korean data, we show that private transfer is altruistically motivated and there is a strong crowding-out effect of public transfer on private transfer. We also find that low-income people suffered to different degrees during the financial crisis period of 1997 to 1998. This finding and the crowding-out effect may be taken as failures of the Korean public transfer programs during the period.

Keywords

Private transfers, Public transfers, Panel data

Discipline

Econometrics

Research Areas

Econometrics

Publication

Economics Letters

Volume

80

Issue

2

First Page

233

Last Page

237

ISSN

0165-1765

Identifier

10.1016/s0165-1765(03)00083-1

Publisher

Elsevier

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(03)00083-1

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