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Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale : Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program
Botea, Ioana; Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Goldstein, Markus P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the government of Zambia yielded consumption and earnings increases comparable to graduation programs, without negative …
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The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era
Bitler, Marianne - 2010
The passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill led to sweeping changes to the central U.S. cash safety net program for families with children. Importantly, along with other changes, the reform imposed lifetime time limits for receipt of welfare de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462153
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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis : Evidence From an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark
Agersnap, Ole - 2019
We study the effects of welfare generosity on international migration using reforms of immigrant welfare benefits in Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for natives or EU immigrants. The policy was later repealed...
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Wage Risk and Government and Spousal Insurance
De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2020
The extent to which households can self-insure and the government can help them to do so depends on the wage risk that they face and their family structure. We study wage risk in the UK and show that the persistence and riskiness of wages depends on one's age and position in the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482512
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Intra-household Welfare
Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2014
In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both different preferences and differential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458475
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On Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the economic foundations of some recently proposed criteria for evaluating the benefits of social programs. These criteria are appropriate for comparing a class of revenue-constant policies. They replace foundational principles of social opportunity costs with accounting...
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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
Amarante, Verónica - 2011
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460967
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Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox
Ikegami, Munenobu - 2016
Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public expenditure? To explore this question, this paper...
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Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces : Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo
Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Blumenstock, Joshua; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Do non-traditional digital trace data and traditional survey data yield similar estimates of the impact of a cash … treatment effects on beneficiary food security, mental health, and self-perceived economic status. However, impact estimates … results for using new digital data sources in impact evaluation …
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The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor
Aizer, Anna - 2020
All redistributive and social insurance programs trade off the potential benefits of transfers with the disincentives these programs generate. We investigate this trade-off using newly collected lifetime data for 16,000 women who applied to the Mothers' Pension Program, the first cash transfer...
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