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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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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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Can cash transfers really be transformative? : a literature review of the sustainability of their impacts
Grisolia, Filippo - 2024
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Spending effects of child-related fiscal transfers
Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Lewis, Vivien; Wehrhöfer, Nils - 2022
As part of Germany’s fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, parents received three payments totalling e450 per child. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending. We find a significant but small spending...
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Minimum wages and poverty
Addison, John T. - 1998
employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …
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Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; … - 2014
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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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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