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Does the Delivery of Primary Health Care Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from the Rollout of Community Health Centers
Kose, Esra; O'Keefe, Siobhan M.; Rosales-Rueda, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved …
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Is Social Protection a Luxury Good?
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin; Torre, Iván - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The claim that social protection is a luxury good--with a national income elasticity exceeding unity--has as been influential. The paper tests the "luxury good hypothesis" using newly-assembled data on social protection spending across countries since 1995, treating the pandemic period...
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The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs : Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries
Gaduh, Arya; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Concerns about fraud in welfare programs common arguments worldwide against such programs. We conducted a survey … experiment with over 28,000 welfare program administrators and over 19,000 beneficiaries in Indonesia to elicit the 'marginal …
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Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor : Long Term Outcomes
Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is …
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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India
Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...
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Social Protection in the Developing World
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low- and middle-income countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which they are operating. This paper reviews the growing literature on the design and impact of these programs. We review how...
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Unconditional Cash Transfers : A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries
Crosta, Tommaso; Karlan, Dean; Ong, Finley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-based poverty traps within the observed range of transfers and with this study-level analytical method. Fourth, effects on … welfare or food security have weakly stronger impacts. Sixth, positive impacts on labor supply and income suggest no evidence …
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Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children
Haushofer, Johannes; Larreboure, Magdalena; Lowes, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences of children. The program allocated $1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. We measure the social preferences of 4,022 children from 1,687 households with survey questions and incentivized...
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Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Lifecycle
Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
returns, both of which contribute to wealth inequality. Counterfactual policy exercises indicate that two ways to lower costs … distributions of welfare costs even though the latter policy appears to reduce wealth differences between agents with different … genetic endowments. This illustrates the importance of welfare calculations when evaluating how genes interact with policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362004
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Race, Ethnicity, and Measurement Error
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas; Wu, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
groups than the survey data suggest, through higher program receipt and greater poverty reduction. These biases in survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056187