Gine, Xavier
[VerfasserIn]
;
Martinez, Meritxell
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Melo, Virginia
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Anticipation, Disappointment and Adaptation
: Evidence from a Home Upgrading Project
Beschreibung:
This paper exploits unexpected delays in the implementation of a home upgrading government program for low-income households in the Dominican Republic to quantify the adverse impact of delays on subjective measures of well-being. The findings show that failure to account for delays in program implementation leads to serious underestimation of program impacts on well-being