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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 … monetary transfer is targeted to women and a local random assignment into the AFAM-PE which exogenously changed the intra … formality choice of women at the eligibility cut-off, but no robust effect on the margin of employment. Secondly, these …
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Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan
Alam, Andaleeb - 2011
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …
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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...
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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 conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. Recipients are required to attend labor-market-oriented...
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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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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
Do local labor markets influence the effectiveness of educational policies? To answer this question, we focus on Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROGRESA, documented to have increased educational attainment. We show that PROGRESA's impact on schooling was smaller in areas with more...
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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...
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers : Evidence from Nicaragua
Dammert, Ana - 2021
In the last decade, the most popular policy tool used to increase human capital in developing countries has been the conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean impacts on schooling, health, and child labor. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using...
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