Stephen O’Connell

Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs: Evidence from a nationwide policy experiment

Stephen O’Connell,  Onur Altındağ, and Rim Achour

We examine how allocating a fixed social assistance budget across localities using different prioritization rules affects both beneficiary selection and program effectiveness. By simulating each […]

Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: model design and validation

Stephen O’Connell,  Onur Altındağ Aytuğ Şaşmaz Zeynep Balcıoğlu§ Paola Cadoni Matilda Jerneck Aimee Kunze Foong

We develop and assess the performance of an econometric prediction model that relies on administrative data held by international agencies to target over $380 million […]