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Buser, Thomas - 2014

How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity...

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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?

Holzner, Christian - 2011

The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...

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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes : The Case of Teenage Pregnancy

Cortes, Darwin F.; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Maldonado, Dario - 2021

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

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The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy : Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2015

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...

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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness : Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian - 2014

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...

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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Doepke, Matthias - 2014

children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non …-cooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they may … necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …

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How Much Do Means-Tested Benefits Reduce the Demand for Annuities?

Butler, Monika - 2011

We analyze the effect of means-tested benefits on annuitization decisions. Most industrialized countries provide a subsistence level consumption floor in old age, usually in the form of means-tested benefits. The availability of such means-tested payments creates an incentive to cash out...

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Social Long Term Care Insurance and Redistribution

Cremer, Helmuth - 2011

We study the role of social long term care (LTC) insurance when income taxation and private insurance markets are imperfect. Policy instruments include public provision of LTC as well as a subsidy on private insurance. The subsidy scheme may be linear or nonlinear. For the linear part we...

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Portability of Social Benefits International Trade in Services : Some Reflections

Valdes-Prieto, Salvador - 2014

In this fascinating new field, this paper offers some reflections on portability of social benefits, and tries to identify promising research topics. These reflections are organized in three sections. The first analyzes the channels that underpin the positive value of portability of social...

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Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?

Fullerton, Don - 2014

We analyze both the uses side and the sources side incidence of domestic climate policy using an analytical general equilibrium model, taking into account the degree of government program indexing. When transfer programs such as Social Security are explicitly indexed to inflation, higher energy...

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