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Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval : Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen
Brune, Lasse - 2020
Social protection programs are needed more than ever during periods of social upheaval, but are also likely to be even harder to implement successfully. Furthermore, social upheaval makes measuring the impact of such policies all the more difficult. We study the impact of a multi-faceted social...
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Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States
Bitler, Marianne - 2016
In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …
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