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There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … empirical underpinning of this claim is a strong inverse relationship at the country level between social transfer targeting and … targeting and redistributive impact over a broad set of empirical specifications, country selections and data sources has in …
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-force statistics or on administrative data, but which are relevant for targeting and tailoring support programmes and related policy …
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Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy …
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-being. We study Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most common childhood mental health condition, and document …
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, obligations to participate in active labour market programmes, as well as sanctions for failing to meet these requirements. Such … rules aim to strengthen incentives to look for, prepare for, and accept employment. They may also be used as a targeting … stringent for first-tier programmes. …
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efficient targeting in childhood interventions. We define children to be in need of an intervention if they suffer from an …
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's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to reduce targeting errors and increase program complementarities …
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the resulting fiscal and distributional effects in a comparative context, undertake a microsimulation study to quantify …
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In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data and nationally representative surveys, we evaluate the...
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modeling assumptions of the error terms. We find the method to outperform common targeting methods, such as proxy means tests … and the targeting method that is currently used by humanitarian organizations in Chad. …
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