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Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programs: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Caeyers, Bet; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

charge of food transfers, in terms of free food aid or food-for-work programs. We find that although targeting is clearly …

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Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated

Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines whether differences in welfare regimes shape the incentives to work and get educated. Using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and education. First, people- and household-based...

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J G; Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Policy Complementarities: The Case for Fundamental Labour Market Reform

Coe, David T; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper analyses complementarities among a variety of labour market policies. It shows: (a) that a wide range of labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at...

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How children’s schooling and work is affected when their father leaves permanently: Evidence from Colombia

Fitzsimons, Emla; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children’s school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children’s school enrolment by around 4 percentage points, and increases...

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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia

Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … twofold. First, we estimate the propensity to consume from government cash transfers separately for each transfer type, and … income. Second, we propose a new decomposition technique to disentangle the impact of changes in government transfers and …

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Social Europe: Dramatic Visions and Real Complexity

Boeri, Tito - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Many social policy reforms have been carried out in Europe in the last fifteen years. Most of these reforms are marginal. Often they are mutually inconsistent. Yet, something is changing in the European social policy landscape and not in the direction implied by the presence of a 'race to the...

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Politically Sustainable Probabilistic Minority Targeting

De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the minority targeted, when the probability to receive the transfer is decreasing and concave in income. We apply our framework to the French social housing program and obtain that...

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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...

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Aid and Agency in Africa: Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households, 1994-2004

Broussard, Nzinga H; Dercon, Stefan; Somanathan, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the distribution of food aid in Ethiopia between 1994 and 2004 using data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey. Over this period village leaders had considerable discretion in disbursing aid subject to official guidelines and periodic monitoring. We use a principal-agent model and...

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