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Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development
Wibowo, Hendro - 2015
analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We … find short-run increases of insurgency-related violence, police-initiated attacks, and insurgent attacks on civilians. We … patterns is that NREGS induces civilians to share more information with the state, improving police effectiveness …
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Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India
Dey, Subhasish - 2016
allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988128
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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program : Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099714
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COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures
Sainsbury, Tristram; Breunig, Robert V.; Watson, Timothy - 2022
This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment payments in the COVID-19 context. We use a novel set of linked whole-of-population administrative records to examine more than half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030508
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Do Europe’s Minimum Income Schemes ProvideAdequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis andHow, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486970
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Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter Against the Economic Crisis and How, if at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah - 2012
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112781
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Brothers in Arms : Spillovers from a Draft Lottery
Bingley, Paul - 2017
Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment – of young men to 8 months of military service – where service status of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965009
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Money Can't Buy Love But Can it Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation
Brück, Tilman - 2014
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046661
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Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures
Lindbeck, Assar - 2012
In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has been difficult to explain these variations by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113065
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Certification and Recertification in Welfare Programs : What Happens When Automation Goes Wrong?
Wu, Derek; Meyer, Bruce - 2023
How do administrative burdens influence enrollment in different welfare programs? Who is screened out at a given stage? This paper studies the impacts of increased administrative burdens associated with the automation of welfare caseworker assistance, leveraging a unique natural experiment in...
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