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Racial disparities in the health effects from air pollution : evidence from ports

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Government transfers and political support

Manacorda, Marco (contributor); Miguel, Edward (contributor) - 2009

We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty program the Uruguayan PANES on political support for the government that implemented it. The program mainly consisted of a monthly cash transfer for a period of roughly two and half years. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a...

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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

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Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...

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Do conditional cash transfers (CCT) raise educational attainment? : a case study of Juntos in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2017

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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru....

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