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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564083
listas de beneficiários. O Brasil, o Suriname, a Argentina, o Chile, a Costa Rica, o Panamá e o Uruguai alcançam de forma … (coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …. Children and Indigenous people are underrepresented, relative to their poverty rate, in the rosters of beneficiaries. Brazil …
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(coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …. Children and Indigenous people are underrepresented, relative to their poverty rate, in the rosters of beneficiaries. Brazil …, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay consistently earn the highest scores across the assessment …
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, Chile, Costa Rica, Panamá y Uruguay obtienen consistentemente las puntuaciones más altas en todas las categorías de … (coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …. Children and Indigenous people are underrepresented, relative to their poverty rate, in the rosters of beneficiaries. Brazil …
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We review the literature on the long-term impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America. Long-term impacts are defined as those that both: 1) are related to the accumulation of human capital, and; 2) are observed after beneficiary children have reached a later stage of the...
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Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are important anti-poverty programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. There is little evidence, however, of the effectiveness of ongoing CCT programs several years after they have begun. Such evidence is particularly relevant for policymakers because...
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We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...
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A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...
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