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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
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Policy feedback and civic engagement : evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment
Hirvonen, Salomo; Schafer, Jerome; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023 - May 2023 (previous version November 2022)
In many democracies, unemployed and low-income citizens are less willing to vote. Can unconditional cash transfers weaken the link between income and turnout? We study a unique experiment in Finland, which randomly assigned a sizable group of unemployed to basic income for two years (2017-19)....
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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 …
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Fighting unemployment without worsening poverty : basic income versus reductions of social security contributions
Van der Linden, Bruno - 1999
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Do conditional cash transfers (CCT) raise educational attainment? : a case study of Juntos in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2017
This paper empirically investigates the impacts of Peru's Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme JUNTOS upon educational outcomes of beneficiary children. The findings associate Juntos participation with higher overall enrolment rates and grades of schooling for children aged 12 to 18 years....
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The effects of conditionality monitoring on educational outcomes : evidence from Brazil's Bolsa Família programme
Paiva, Luis Henrique; Soares, Fabio Veras; Cireno, Flavio; … - 2016
Conditional cash transfer programmes have been increasingly adopted by several low and middle-income countries. Despite this overall acceptance, conditionalities remain under scrutiny regarding their possible independent effects on educational and health indicators. This paper is an ecological...
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Did conditional cash transfers in the Productive Safety Net Program empower women in Tigray, north-east Ethiopia?
Desalegne Gelagay, Megos; Lecoutere, Els - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid - 2019
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Can cash transfers really be transformative? : a literature review of the sustainability of their impacts
Grisolia, Filippo - 2024
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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 … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …
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Is poverty the main cause of child work in urban Brazil?
Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Mendonça, Rosane Silva Pinto de; … - 2015
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