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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered rollout. By changing parents' consumption patterns, the...
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Child Health and Parental Responses to an Unconditional Cash Transfer at Birth
de Gendre, Alexandra; Lynch, John; Meunier, Aurélie; … - 2021
We estimate the impact on child health of the unanticipated introduction of the Australian Baby Bonus, a $3,000 one-off unconditional cash transfer at birth. Using regression discontinuity methods and linked administrative data from South Australia, we find that treated babies had fewer...
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Culture and Human Capital Investments : Evidence of an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2021
in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers : Evidence from Nicaragua
Dammert, Ana - 2021
. Using interactions between the targeting criteria and the treatment indicator, estimates suggest that children located in …
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Cooperation in a Fragmented Society : Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2020
Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and … refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
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The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health : Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon
Mouganie, Pierre - 2020
in waste burning in residential neighborhoods in Beirut and Mount Lebanon. To identify effects, we exploit variation in …
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Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants : Does Starthelp Help You Start?
Rosholm, Michael - 2007
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...
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The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality Among Natives
Aygün, Aysun - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … system was completely broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced numerous diseases during their exodus …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824426
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Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden : An Outlook on Demography, Education and Employment
Celikaksoy, Aycan - 2015
the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay …. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have not yet turned 18. However, the largest increase over the latest …
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