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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Leer, Jane - 2016

quality and fidelity of implementation in home visit programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) does not exist. In … light of this gap, this note presents a snapshot of home visit quality in seven countries in which home visits reach a … order to ensure implementation quality …

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Child care quality and child development

Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017

effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor … in classrooms with more experienced caregivers, and classrooms with caregivers who demonstrate higher-quality … interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …

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A Closer Look : Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City

Cassidy, Mike - 2020

Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...

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Short Moves and Long Stays : Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City

Cassidy, Mike - 2020

Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...

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Did the Nation-Wide Implementation of E-Fms in Mgnregs Result in Reduced Expenditures? A Re-Examination of the Evidence

Goel, Deepti; Meenakshi, J.; De Souza, Zaeen - 2022

This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report a...

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Can conditional cash transfers alter the effectiveness of other human capital development policies?

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2024

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...

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Interactions between conditional cash transfers and preferred secondary schools in Jamaica

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2022

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...

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Unpacking Neighborhood Effects : Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Housing Program in Brazil

Belchior, Carlos; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2023

programs in Brazil. Receiving a house has positive impacts on housing quality and reduces household expenditures but has … probability of being formally employed but no effect on the quality of jobs. Poorer individuals, however, experience better formal …. Network quality, amenities and crime play a very limited role, while labor market access explains 82-93% of the observed …

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The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply

Magda, Iga - 2018

In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...

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Stable Income, Stable Family

Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...

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