Social Protection in a Crisis
评估阿根廷2002年经济危机期间主要社会政策的效果，发现该计划降低了总体失业率，但吸引了大量非劳动力进入市场，同时存在漏出和覆盖不足问题，但部分补偿了危机受害者并减少了极端贫困。
The article assesses the impact of Argentina's main social policy response to the severe economic crisis of 2002. The program was intended to provide direct income support for families with dependents and whose head had become unemployed because of the crisis. Counterfactual comparisons are based on a matched subset of applicants not yet receiving program assistance. Panel data spanning the crisis are also used. The program reduced aggregate unemployment, though it attracted as many people into the workforce from inactivity as it did people who otherwise would have been unemployed. Although there was substantial leakage to formally ineligible families and incomplete coverage of those who were eligible, the program did partially compensate many losers from the crisis and reduced extreme poverty.