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Cash and conflict : large-scale experimental evidence from Niger
Premand, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic - 2023
on conflict in Niger. The analysis relies on the large-scale randomization of a government-led cash transfer program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549059
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Politically sustainable probabilistic minority targeting
De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384383
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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020
investments in activities enhancing labor market opportunities and improved family networks seem to explain the results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210914
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Snaebjorn … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
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Causal analysis of policy effects on fertility
Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; … - 2023
This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies from Europe, Northern America, Oceania and Asia. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383573
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To what extent are public pensions Pareto-improving? : on the interaction of means tested basic income and public pensions
Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - 1999
If there is a means tested basic income for old age, households will tend to reduce precautionary savings to an … income types where compulsory savings are found to be Pareto improving only up to a point. Increases in contribution rates … system (with intragenerational fairness) plays a role similar to compulsor y savings in preventing the savings moral hazard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781692
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Family-specific investments and divorce : a theory of dynamically inconsistent household behavior
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016
more likely to happen if past investments in family-specific capital have been low. We obtain three main sets of results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509239
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Perceived precautionary savings motives : evidence from FinTech
D'Acunto, Francesco; Rauter, Thomas; Scheuch, Christoph; … - 2020
, and motives through a FinTech application. Users increase their spending permanently, lower their savings rate, and … precautionary savings motives: Liquid users behave as if they faced strong precautionary savings motives even though no observables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171775
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On the causes and consequences of divorce
Balestrino, Alessandro (contributor);  … - 2008
In most Western economies, the flourishing of the Welfare State has coincided with a decline of the role of the family: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of the informal safety net in a period when social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730302
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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state : the case of benefit morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850182