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Social and Economic Impacts of Rural Road Improvements in the State of Tocantins, Brazil
Iimi, Atsushi; Lancelot, Eric R.; Manelici, Isabela - 2015
The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...
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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India???s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Lagrange, Arthur Alik; Ravallion, Martin - 2013
Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, past assessments have relied solely on household...
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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh
Deininger, Klaus; Liu, Yanyan - 2013
This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...
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Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches : Evidence from Bolsa Família
Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William; Rios, Juan - 2022
This paper develops a framework to bound the welfare impacts of reforms to notches using two sufficient statistics: (1) the number of households bunching at the old notch who move toward the new notch, and (2) the number of households who "jump” down to the new notch. The bounds hold in a wide...
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The Quality of Fiscal Adjustment and the Long-Run Growth Impact of Fiscal Policy in Brazil
Blanco, Fernando; Herrera, Santiago - 2012
The authors describe the main trends of Brazil's fiscal policy during the past decade and analyze (1) the ability to … Brazil. But the relationship is nonlinear: the impact of the primary balance on spreads is amplified as the debt ratio … disappointing growth performance in Brazil during the past decade. …
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The Impact of High School Financial Education : Experimental Evidence from Brazil
Bruhn, Miriam; de Souza Leao, Luciana; Legovini, Arianna - 2014
approximately 20,000 high school students in Brazil through a randomized control trial. The program increased student financial …
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Near-Real-Time Welfare and Livelihood Impacts of an Active Civil War : Evidence from Ethiopia
Abay, Kibrom A.; Abay, Mehari H.; Berhane, Guush; … - 2022
Ethiopia is currently embroiled in a large-scale civil war that has continued for more than a year. Using unique High-Frequency Phone Survey data, which spans several months before and after the outbreak of the war, this paper provides fresh evidence on the ex durante impacts of the conflict on...
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Social Cohesion and Refugee-Host Interactions : Evidence from East Africa
Betts, Alexander; Omata, Naohiko; Sterck, Olivier; … - 2022
Building upon the literature on contact theory, this paper explores the role of inter-group interaction in shaping social cohesion between refugees and host communities in East Africa. It draws upon first-hand quantitative (n=16,608) and qualitative data collected from refugees and nearby host...
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Forced Migration, Social Cohesion and Conflict : The 2015 Refugee Inflow in Germany
Albarosa, Emanuele; Elsner, Benjamin - 2022
In 2015, Germany welcomed close to one million asylum seekers and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, the Western Balkans and elsewhere. Although the country was often praised for its welcome culture, the inflow has spurred a debate about identity, social cohesion and the limits of...
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Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods : Refugees in Ethiopia
Admasu, Yeshwas - 2021
This study uses the Ethiopia Skills Profile Survey (2017) to examine the gender differences in livelihood opportunities and activities between refugees and host communities. The results show that refugees are significantly less likely to be in employment, and that household characteristics...
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