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Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - 2021
A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of multi-tasking men- tors on schooling outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a standard training modality in highly marginalized communities in Mexico generates null results, enhanced training yields sizable treatment...
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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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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment : Introduction
Francesconi, Marco - 2016
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy : The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...
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Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation
de Hoop, Jacobus - 2017
Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....
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College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device
Gandil, Mikkel; Leuven, Edwin - 2022
How can colleges find successful applicants? Criteria such as GPA, interviews, essays, and tests provide information about candidates, but which work and why? We shed light on these questions using unique data on the universe of objective and subjective rankings of all college applicants in...
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Severance Pay Mandates : Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
apparent paradox – firing cost effects are modest even without firm avoidance activities. To explore why that should be so … and the economic environment. Although the analysis assumes a fixed benefit mandate, the cost measures are easily extended …
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