This paper presents impacts of the pilot conditional cash transfer programme in Paraguay. The choice of outcomes of interest is based on the work developed by the family counselling component undertaken by social workers. Propensity score techniques are used to deal with the problem of...

Using survival models, we test whether short-term changes in the labour market affect poverty duration. Data are from the Brazilian Monthly Employment Survey. Such a monthly dataset permits more accurate estimations of events than using annual data, but its panel follows households for a short...

The 2005 split-share reform in China mandated the conversion of nontradable stocks into tradable status. This paper examines the effects of stock markets on corporate outcomes exploiting multiple institutional features of the Chinese conversion program. Using a generalized propensity score...