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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020
a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In … particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades. It also …
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Narrowing the "digital divide" : the role of complementarities between fixed and mobile data in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan; Grzybowski, Lukasz - 2019
We study substitution between fixed and mobile broadband services in South Africa using survey data on 134,000 individuals between 2009 and 2014. In our discrete-choice model, individuals choose fixed or mobile voice and data services in a framework that allows them to be substitutes or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029160
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Determinants of financial inclusion of urban poor in India : an empirical analysis
Bapat, Dhananjay; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016
financial inclusion in Pune, a large city of India based on a household survey at an identified slum area. Empirical findings of …
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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Solar rebound : the unintended consequences of subsidies
Boccard, Nicolas; Gautier, Axel - 2019
Many jurisdictions use net metering to record the power exchange between solar photovoltaic panels and the grid, thus valuing home production at the electricity retail rate. However, if over the billing period, production exceeds consumption, the surplus remains freely available for consumption....
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The effect of structural reforms : do they differ between GDP and adjusted household disposable income?
Botev, Jamila; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2022
The paper considers whether structural reforms have a different impact on adjusted household disposable income (AHDI …
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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...
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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict
Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014
Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...
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Landownership concentration and the expansion of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2011
This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration,...
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