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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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Labour supply disincentives of income support : an analysis of single mothers with no qualifications in the UK
Soobedar, Zeenat - 2009
This paper examines the labour supply disincentives of the Income Support system among single mothers with no qualifications in the UK. It uses a regression discontinuity approach that exploits the age-eligibility rule establishing automatic withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933915
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Disability benefits : a substitute for income support for single mothers with no qualifications in the UK
Soobedar, Zeenat - 2009
This paper examines the impact of the age-eligibility rule establishing automatic withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose youngest child turns 16 on the disability benefits welfare participation decision of single mothers with no qualifications in the UK. Using the age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933918
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Do education and health conditions matter in a large cash transfer? : evidence from a Honduran experiment
Benedetti, Fiorella; Ibarrarán, Pablo; McEwan, Patrick J. - 2015
The paper analyzes a new Honduran conditional cash transfer experiment (Bono 10,000) in which 150 poor villages (of 300) were treated. The transfers were much larger in size than an earlier experiment (Galiani & McEwan, 2013), but yielded smaller full-sample effects on school enrollment, child...
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More schooling and more learning? : effects of a three-year conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua after 10 years
Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, … - 2013
CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs, leave little doubt that such programs can increase enrollment and grades attained––in the short term. But evidence is notably lacking...
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Rationalising fertiliser subsidy in India : key issues and policy options
Gulati, Ashok; Banerjee, Pritha - 2015
Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised agriculture in the past, be they developed countries like the United States of America or countries in the European Union or Japan and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and...
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Intended and unintended effects of unconditional cash transfers : the case of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad
Hernani-Limarino, Werner; Mena, Gary - 2015
This document presents a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad, a universal and non-contributory old age pension. Causal effects on direct, future, and indirect beneficiaries are identified, taking advantage of a reduction in age of eligibility from 65 to 60 years in...
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