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Social image concerns and welfare take-up
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how...
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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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Happy to help: the welfare effects of a nationwide micro-volunteering programme
Dolan, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Shreedhar, Ganga; Lee, Helen - 2021
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Benefit salience and labour supply
Spittal, Peter - 2022
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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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Do conditional cash transfers (CCT) raise educational attainment? : a case study of Juntos in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2017
through grades rather than final years of schooling. We find no impact on enrolment or school progression for younger children … aged 6 to 11 years. Further, Juntos participation does not have a positive impact upon scores of receptive vocabulary and …-beneficiary families, while there is no impact upon older children. Evidence on the underlying reasons for this is inconclusive and merits …
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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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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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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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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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