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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi : a micro-simulation
Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are...
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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South : a comparative assessment
Lastunen, Jesse; Mahieu, Antoine de; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024
This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide a cross-country perspective on the redistributive...
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The expansion of economic protection for older adults in Latin America : key design features of non-contributory pensions
Arza, Camila - 2017
Over the past two decades, many Latin American countries have expanded the economic protection of older adults by developing non-contributory pensions or making eligibility rules more flexible. These policies have addressed long-standing coverage gaps in Latin American pension systems and...
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Der Zugang von Arbeitnehmern in den Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld II
Aldashev, Alisher; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2009
Diese Arbeit untersucht die erwerbsfÄahig eingestuften Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II, die mindestens einmal Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 bezogen haben. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass 16% der Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 während des Zeitraums 2000...
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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana
Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015
This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the...
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Estimates of multidimensional poverty for India using NSSO-71 and -75
Mothkoor, Venugopal; Badgaiyan, Nina - 2021
We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13.75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates...
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Can information dissemination reduce last mile payment delays in the public works programme? : evidence from a field experiment in India
Das, Upasak; Paul, Amartya; Sharma, Mohit - 2021
Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention that involves dissemination of publicly...
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Structural labor supply models and wage exogeneity
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014 - This version: June 24, 2014
elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where...
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Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto
Canelas, Carla; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2018
In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
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