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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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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin - 2008
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methods in a dynamic, multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773490
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Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs : Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany
Rinne, Ulf - 2009
This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which introduced training vouchers and imposed more selective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765322
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Deja Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980-1992 and 2000-2003
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of participants. Little is known on the effectiveness of different types of short-term training and on their long-run effects. This paper estimates the effects of short-term training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771630
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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859296
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed : Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147125
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of participants, in particular compared to other active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079733