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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 …
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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On the distributional implications of social protection reforms in Latin America
Barrientos, Armando - 2011
The paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implications for welfare institutions in the region....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375567
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Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Tanzania : a feasibility study
Leyaro, Vincent; Kisanga, Elineema; Wright, Gemma; … - 2015
This paper presents the findings from a feasibility study on the potential for developing a static tax-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania. The paper provides an account of the current tax-benefit system in Tanzania and introduces the survey dataset which could function as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416205
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Social transfers and growth : the missing evidence from luminosity data
Villa, Juan M. - 2014
The effects of social transfers on growth are still unclear. The limitations of aggregated data at sub-national levels have confined the analysis to the use of simulation models and household surveys. As an alternative, this paper contributes to the empirical literature by assessing the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357952
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Targeting social transfer programmes : comparing design and implementation errors across alternative mechanisms
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Hurrell, Alex; Devereux, Stephen - 2014
Identifying the poorest for selection into social transfer programmes is a major challenge facing programme implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialled three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about which approach is most effective at minimizing inclusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010240693
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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi : a micro-simulation
Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are...
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Can the context mediate macro-policy outcomes? : contextual differences in the returns to Bolsa Familia in Brazil
Jacobi, Nadia von - 2014
Local institutional and structural (meso) factors can play a role in mediating the returns to a macro-social policy. I focus on the Brazilian cash-transfer-programme Bolsa Familia and check how contextual features influence the returns to transfers. Building on Amartya Sen's work, I assess the...
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