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Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda

Bensch, Gunther; Kluve, Jochen; Peters, Jörg - 2011

electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without …

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Does the welfare state destroy the family? : evidence from OECD member countries

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013

We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political fractionalization (i.e. the number of relevant parties involved in the legislative process), we show...

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Minimum wage : does it improve welfare in Thailand?

Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Messina, Julián; Sanz de … - 2014

-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in …

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Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty program : evidence using household panel data

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Ara, Jinnat - 2016

-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …

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Social distancing, stimulus payments, and domestic violence : evidence from the US during COVID-19

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Prina, Silvia - 2022

We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early...

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Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brito, Emilia; Clarke, Damian; … - 2021

We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence (DV). Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition increases indicators of DV-related distress, while decreasing DV reports to the police. We identify...

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence in Los Angeles

Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit; Spencer, Melissa K. - 2020

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both anecdotal accounts and academic research have found...

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Intra-household behavioral responses to cash transfer programs : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Bergolo, Marcelo; Galvan, Estefania - 2016

monetary transfer is targeted to women and a local random assignment into the AFAM-PE which exogenously changed the intra-household … taking greater (perceived) responsibility for decisions in specific spheres of household expenditures. In conclusion … increase in women's control over household resources, offering suggestive considerations for the ongoing debate in developing …

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Gender differences in the benefits of an influential early childhood program

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017

This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...

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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018

RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer significant …

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