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Tackling Social Exclusion : Evidence from Chile

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2014

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

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Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Children's Academic Performance in China

Nong, Huifu; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Hongjia; Zhu, Rong - 2021

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion : Do Single-Sex Environments Affect Their Development?

Booth, Alison L. - 2011

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....

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Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Poggi, Ambra - 2007

Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the economics literature. In this paper we explore the inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and...

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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma

Solda, Alice - 2018

Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and whether this length is imposed exogenously or results from a vote. We show that people are...

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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - 2021

This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...

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Physical Isolation and Loneliness : Evidence from COVID Lockdowns in Australia

Kong, Nancy; Lam, Jack - 2022

Using mandatory stay-at-home orders in Australia as a natural experiment and data from a long-running panel study, this paper investigates the causal link between physical isolation and loneliness. We exploit variations in the number of lockdown days in 2020 the respondent had experienced up...

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Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration : Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Barrett, Alan - 2012

Across the subjects of economics, sociology and demography, much has been written about the difficulties faced by immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this paper, we examine whether and the extent to which a...

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Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid : An Experimental Study

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2021

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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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,...

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