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We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country … Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …, and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no …
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This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school … treatment (at age 8) increases children enrolment by about 9 percent. This positive effect disappears by age 15, and is more … pronounced in urban areas. In sharp contrast, children receiving treatment later (age 12–15) are more likely to drop out by age …
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We explore the impact of authorization on the poverty exposure of households headed by undocumented immigrants. The … the likelihood of life in poverty of households headed by eligible individuals by 38 percent, hinting at the gains from …
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involves the clarification of feasible targets that may vary across the OECD. -- poverty ; children ; social policy … poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries …
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This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …
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cash transfer, in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital … cash transfers might not be always effective to support the investment in children's human capital of the poorest …
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We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
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quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …
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