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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
Amarante, Verónica - 2012
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...
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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 … of children covered by Bolsa Família. We find a robust and significant negative impact of Bolsa Família coverage on crime …
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Del Boca, Daniela - 2020
Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a …
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Learning About the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs : Evidence from Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda - 2017
We study the implementation of Bolsa Familia, a program that conditions cash transfers to poor families on children's school attendance. Using unique administrative data, we analyze how beneficiaries respond to the enforcement of conditionality. Making use of random variation in the day on which...
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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. - 2017
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. We link administrative data for food...
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Intra-Household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Bergolo, Marcelo - 2016
This paper investigates the behavioral responses of coupled men and women to a cash transfer program in Uruguay – Asignaciones Familiares-Plan de Equidad (AFAM-PE) –, by analyzing its effect on labor market responses, marital dissolution, and the decision-making process regarding the use of...
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Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early-Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
Molina Millán, Teresa - 2019
Numerous evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs show positive short-term impacts, but there is only limited evidence on whether these benefits translate into sustained longer-term gains. This paper uses the municipal-level randomized assignment of a CCT program implemented for...
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Conditional Cash Transfers and Labor Market Conditions
Molina, Teresa; Vidiella-Martin, Joaquim - 2022
's conditional cash transfer program, PROGRESA, documented to have increased educational attainment. We show that PROGRESA's impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087542
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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income Across Five OECD Countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2021
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries …. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers : Evidence from Nicaragua
Dammert, Ana - 2021
more impoverished localities experienced a larger impact of the program on schooling in 2001, but this finding is reversed …
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