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Smarter through social protection? : evaluating the impact of Ethiopia's safety-net on child cognitive abilities

Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; Woldehanna, Tassew - 2017

We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child cognitive achievement in the medium term. The programme is the second largest in Africa, and has been rolled out to almost 10 million beneficiaries since 2005. We exploit four rounds...

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Socioeconomic decline and death : midlife impacts of graduating in a recession

Schwandt, Hannes; Wachter, Till von - 2020

This paper uses several large cross-sectional data sources and a new approach to estimate midlife effects of entering the labor market in a recession on mortality by cause and various measures of socioeconomic status. We find that cohorts coming of age during the deep recession of the early...

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Torn apart? : the impact of manufacturing employment decline on black and white Americans

Gould, Eric D. - 2018

manufacturing decline negatively impacted blacks (men, women, and children) in terms of their wages, employment, marriage rates … addition, the decline in manufacturing increased inequality within the black community in terms of overall wages and the gaps … between education groups in wages, employment, and marriage rates. Many of the same patterns are found for whites, but to a …

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Are recipients of social assistance "benefit dependent"? : concepts, measurement and results for selected countries

Immervoll, Herwig; Jenkins, Stephen; Königs, Sebastian - 2015

Means-tested Social Assistance (SA) benefits play an important role as social protection floors supporting households in financial difficulties. This paper presents evidence on the patterns of SA benefit receipt in a selection of OECD and EU countries. It provides an overview of the role of SA...

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Socioeconomic profile of sustainable livelihood program participants : evidence from a household survey

Corpus, John Paul P.; Magno-Ballesteros, Marife; … - 2019

wages. Sample households also have limited formal borrowing and savings. Furthermore, female spouses who are not in the …

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A public expenditure review of social protection programs in the Philippines

Diokno-Sicat, Charlotte Justine; Mariano, Ma. Alma P. - 2018

The main economic justification for government provision of social protection is to redistribute income to the poor, marginalized and vulnerable in society. In a developing country such as the Philippines, social protection has been a consistent priority of government. In the recent decade,...

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Social protection for men and women in the Philippines : some insights for improving program design of social insurance schemes

Reyes, Celia M.; Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Asis, Ronina D. - 2018

To reduce the risks and vulnerability to sudden income shocks faced by households due to natural calamities, disability, illnesses and other causes, ensuring that social protection programs are designed in a relevant and effective manner is crucial. This study examines the coverage of several...

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Social protection and access to health care among children in the Philippines

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Paqueo, Vicente B. - 2017

The Philippines recently introduced two distinct but related large-scale social protection programs that, first, provides conditional cash transfers (CCT) to poor households, and, second, automatically enrolls them into the government's social health insurance program. This has resulted to...

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Impacts of the sustainable livelihood program's microenterprise development assistance with seed capital fund on poor households in the Philippines

Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Magno-Ballesteros, Marife; Corpus, … - 2020

This study evaluates the impact of Microenterprise Development (MD) assistance on the labor supply, income, expenditure, savings, and capital investment of beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya, the Philippine government's conditional cash transfers (CCT) program. The assistance is provided by the...

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Analyzing Filipino migrant workers' access to social protection

Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Vargas, Anna Rita P.; Mondez, Maria … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has such a wide-reaching and sudden adverse impact on people's livelihoods. For a country like the Philippines which significantly relies on overseas remittances to boost household consumption, the return of hundreds of thousands of OFWs is a great reminder of the need for...

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