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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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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs : A Practitioner's Guide

Card, David E. - 2011

The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP's, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...

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Taking a Chance on Workers : Evidence on the Effects and Mechanisms of Subsidized Employment from an RCT

Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; Cadena, Brian C.; Turner, … - 2023

This paper estimates experimental impacts of a supported work program on employment, earnings, benefit receipt, and other outcomes. Case managers addressed employment barriers and provided targeted financial assistance while participants were eligible for 30 weeks of subsidized employment....

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Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development : Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2019

This paper experimentally estimates medium term impacts of a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor …

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Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data

Chong, Alberto; Galdo, José - 2021

We estimate the effect of training quality on earnings using a Peruvian program, which targets disadvantaged youths. The identification of causal effects is possible because of two attractive features in the data. First, selection of training courses is based on public bidding processes that...

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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program : The Case of Progresa and Consumption

Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2021

Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated may fail to capture important spillover effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's...

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Is Crime Contagious?

Ludwig, Jens; Kling, Jeffrey R. - 2021

crime rates decrease arrest rates among individuals. Our analysis exploits the fact that the effect of treatment group …-site interactions to instrument for measures of neighborhood crime rates, poverty and racial segregation in our analysis of individual …

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The Effect of Workfare on Crime : Incapacitation and Program Effects

Fallesen, Peter - 2014

In this paper, we estimate the effect of workfare policy on crime by exploiting two exogenous welfare policy changes in … Denmark. Our results show a strong decline in the crime rate among treated unemployment uninsured men relative to untreated … lasting crime reducing effect of workfare policy …

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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa - 2012

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …

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Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty

Bjerk, David - 2009

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …

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