Search Results - subject:"social assistance"

Do conditional cash transfers reduce fertility? : nationwide evidence from Mexico

Parker, Susan; Ryu, Soomin - In: Population and development review 49 (2023) 3, pp. 599-616

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In-kind government assistance and crowd-out of charitable services : evidence from free school meals

Ruffini, Krista; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Pekgün, Pelin - 2023

Many community organizations provide services similar to government programs, but there is limited evidence how increased government assistance affects the use of charitable services. We examine how greater access to federal nutritional aid through schoolwide free meal programs affects food bank...

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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023

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The Brazilian state's redistributive role : changes and persistence at the beginning of the 21st century

Silveira, Fernando Gaiger da; Palomo, Theo Ribas - 2023

This paper examines the evolution of the redistributive role of the State in Brazil at the beginning of the 21st century. For this purpose, we compute the marginal effects of the cash transfers, taxes, and in-kind benefits on inequality using the Lerman-Yitzhaki progressivity index. Our main...

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Protecting who? : optimal social protection responses to shocks with limited information

Hernandez, Carlos Gustavo Ospino; Rigolini, Jamele; … - 2023

protection responses to shocks, using microsimulations of different social assistance responses in Albania, Moldova, and North … welfare rankings and on the parameters of the existing social assistance system, including the generosity of the schemes and …. When a shock tends to affect households homogeneously, increasing generosity and expanding the existing targeted social …

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