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Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Macours, Karen; Schady, Norbert; Vakis, Renos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. There is a large literature on the effects of these programs on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible impacts on child development. This paper analyzes the impact of a cash...

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Financing the family : remittances to Central America in a time of crisis

Inchauste, Gabriela (contributor); … - 2013

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Financing the Family : Remittances to Central America in a Time of Crisis

Inchauste, Gabriela (ed.); Stein, Ernesto (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Interest in learning how to make the most of the potential developmental benefits of remittance flows has grown worldwide. Financing the Family adds to that body of knowledge with a summary of recent research that emphasizes experimental approaches, focuses on Central America, and analyzes the...

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The Welfare Impacts of Social Housing Programs in Latin America: A Meta-impact Analysis

Ruprah, Inder - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

, income and poverty status. …

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Do Social Housing Programs Increase Poverty? An Empirical Analysis of Shelter Induced Poverty in Latin America

Ruprah, Inder - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

In this paper we estimate the size of shelter induced poverty by housing tenure in Latin America and determine whether … through a public or privately provided mortgage for a given valued program house) increase or decrease shelter induced poverty …. Shelter induced poverty describes the situation where a household, after paying for housing (rent or mortgage plus utilities …

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On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Galiani, Sebastian; Seira, Enrique - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

There are few reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes. This study exploits the manifold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug- related homicides on housing prices. Using an...

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Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Deisy Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The main contribution of this paper with respect to previous work is the use of data on subjective perceptions to identify the Latin American middle classes. This paper provides a set of comparisons between objective and subjective definitions of middle-class using data from the 2007 World...

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Improving the Quality of Data and Impact-Evaluation Studies in Developing Countries

Stecklov, Guy; Weinreb, Alex - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

While the science of program evaluation has come a tremendous distance in the past couple of decades, measurement error remains a serious concern and its implications are often poorly understood by both data collectors and data analysts. The primary aim here is to offer a type of...

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Causal Estimates of the Intangible Costs of Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Aguero, Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Violence has a striking gender pattern. Men are more likely to be attacked by a stranger, while women experience violence mostly from their partners. This paper estimates the costs of violence against women in terms of intangible outcomes, such as women's reproductive health, labor supply, and...

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Cash Transfers and Anemia Among Women of Reproductive Age

Schady, Norbert - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Iron deficiency anemia is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency in the world, affecting more than 2 billion people in developing countries. We show that a modest cash transfer substantially reduced anemia among women of reproductive age in rural Ecuador.

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