author: Albuja Echeverria, W. S. 
year: 2021
title: "Ex ante evaluation of the basic income in Ecuador: Effects on poverty and inequality"
publisher: Trimestre Economico
uri: https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v88i351.1142
pubtype: article
discipline: economics

country: Ecuador
period:
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targeting: explicit
group: poor people
data: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (ENEMDU)

design: simulation
method: microsimulation, behaviorless, counterfactual; Gini coefficient
sample: nr
unit: individual
representativeness: national
causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal

theory:
limitations: ex ante model by design has to make assumptions about certain mediators/mechanisms
observation:
  - intervention: ubi
    institutional: 1
    structural: 0
    agency: 0
    inequality: income
    type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
    indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
    measures: income; poverty
    findings: monthly transfer equal to value of income poverty line for adults and 30% for minors would significantly decrease income poverty and inequality; increase middle class
    channels:
    direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos
    significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg

notes: ex ante study
annotation: |
