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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa A. - 2012

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …

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Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

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Less Cash, Less Crime : Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program

Wright, Richard - 2014

It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit … had a negative and significant effect on the overall crime rate as well as burglary, assault, and larceny. According to …

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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

de Janvry, Alain - 2010

This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...

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Income inequality and the international transfer of environmental values

Meya, Jasper N.; Drupp, Moritz A.; Hanley, Nick - 2017

How income and the valuation of environmental goods are related is a key question for science and policy, but the role of income inequality is often neglected. This paper studies how income inequality impacts the international transfer of environmental values-a practice called value or benefit...

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Income inequality and the international transfer of environmental values

Meya, Jasper N.; Drupp, Moritz A.; Hanley, Nick - 2017 - [Revised version]

How the valuation of environmental goods is related to income is a key question for environmental economics, but the role of income inequality is often neglected. We study how income inequality affects the international transfer of the valuation of environmental goods - a practice called value...

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Income inequality and the international transfer of environmental values

Meya, Jasper; Drupp, Moritz A.; Hanley, Nick - 2018 - [Revised version]

How the valuation of environmental goods is related to income is a key question for economics, but the role of income inequality is often neglected. We study how income inequality affects the international transfer of the estimated value of environmental goods from a study to a policy site - a...

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Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe

Barrett, Alan - 2011

The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...

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Wage Subsidies, Work Incentives, and the Reform of the Austrian Welfare System

Steiner, Viktor - 2010

We analyze the labor supply and income effects of a needs-based minimum benefit system ("Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty as well as increasing employment rates of recipients...

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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex - 2012

In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial “social support...

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