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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103464
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066498
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047870
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134821
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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income : implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2015
We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics, but provide evidence that our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399523
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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
In this paper I examine the rates at which adults in households recently receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded employment services. I also investigate the correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338814
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Unemployment insurance and low-educated single working mothers before and after welfare reform
Shaefer, H. Luke; Wu, Liyun - 2011
Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a nationally representative, longitudinal survey, this study examines changing levels of Unemployment Insurance (UI) eligibility and benefit receipt among working low-educated single mothers, 1990-2005. It also examines changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273826
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015 - First version: March 25, 2015, This version: October 31, 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
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The effect of the earned income tax credit in the district of Columbia on poverty and income dynamics
Hardy, Bradley L.; Muhammad, Daniel; Samudra, Rhucha - 2015
Using unique longitudinal administrative tax panel data for the District of Columbia (DC), we assess the combined effect of the DC supplemental earned income tax credit (EITC) and the federal EITC on poverty and income dynamics within Washington, DC, from 2001 to 2011. The EITC in DC merits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297642
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Single mothers working at night : standard work, child care subsidies, and implications for welfare reform
Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2004
Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002836771