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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210914
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Disrupting education? : experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, … - 2017
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs. A key feature of the program was its ability to...
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Moving on up for high school graduates in Russia : the consequences of the unified state exam reform
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Francesconi, Marco; Jurko, Anna V. - 2017
In 2009, Russia introduced a reform that changed the admissions process in all universities. Before 2009, admission decisions were based on institution-specific entry exams; the reform required universities to determine their decisions on the results of a national high-school test known as...
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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786019
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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793157
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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017
We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at different extents. Borrowers can be (very) poor or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602702
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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays
Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019
The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064536
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Institutional framework and poverty : a transition economy perspective
Ahsan, Syed M. - 2001
This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are … interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were … convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy …
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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...
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On the partial public provision of a private good
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2002
When the public provision of private goods is partial rather than universal, public supply may be supplemented by the entry of private firms in the market for the private good. The main purpose of this paper is to explore whether partial public provision helps or hinders aggregate access to the...
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