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The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children

Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Plug, Erik; Ponce, Juan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which...

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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

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Cash Transfers and Child Labour

de Hoop, Jacobus; Rosati, Furio C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...

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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...

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The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance: Structure and Reform Options

Arntz, Melanie; Sacchetto, Ralf; Spermann, Alexander; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social networks are leading to a greater need for a public long-term care system. In 1995 the social long-term care insurance was introduced in Germany. In recent years some drawbacks of...

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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that are given to all children and the elderly (that is, "categorical" transfers), to programs of equal budget that are confined to the poor within each population group (that is,...

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The Impact of a Cash Transfer Program on Cognitive Achievement: The Bono de Desarrollo Humano of Ecuador

Ponce, Juan; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Throughout Latin America, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs play an important role in social policy. These programs aim to influence the accumulation of human capital, as well as reduce poverty. In terms of educational outcomes, a number of impact evaluation studies have shown that such...

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Immigration and Public Spending

Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...

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Investment under Company-Level Pacts

Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments …

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Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

, savings, length of stay in the U.S., and citizenship status affect the probability of homeownership before the recession and …

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