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Good governance and good aid allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Default, and Bailouts
Juessen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - 2013
This paper examines fiscal policy without commitment and the effects of conditional bailout loans. The government relies on distortionary taxation and decides between full debt repayment and costly default. It tends to overborrow due to myopia, which induces default to be a relevant policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328905
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Can Welfare Conditionality Combat High School Dropout?
Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance … geographically differentiated implementation of conditionality. The causal effects are identified on the basis of larger …-than-expected within-municipality changes in outcomes that not only coincide with the local timing of conditionality implementation, but do …
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Making Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Mandatory
Dahl, Espen S.; Hernaes, Øystein - 2022
Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making welfare receipt conditional on participation in an activation program for all welfare recipients...
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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How to Best Fight Poverty: The Uneven Ex-post Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labor Earnings
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Quaranta, Roberto - 2022
Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the program anymore. We compare the ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfer programs on labor income. We use an experiment where low-income individuals are...
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Mechanics of Replacing Benefit Systems with a Basic Income: Comparative Results from a Microsimulation Approach
Browne, James; Immervoll, Herwig - 2017
Recent debates of basic income (BI) proposals shine a useful spotlight on the challenges that traditional forms of income support are increasingly facing, and highlight gaps in social provisions that largely depend on income or employment status. A universal "no questions asked" public transfer...
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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Hernaes, Øystein - 2018
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816612
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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms: Impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - 2012
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
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Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Default, and Bailouts
Juessen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines fiscal policy without commitment and the effects of conditional bailout loans. The government relies on distortionary taxation and decides between full debt repayment and costly default. It tends to overborrow due to myopia, which induces default to be a relevant policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884292