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Long-term effects of PROSPERA on welfare
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto; Barnard, Cristina; De … - 2019
The long-term effects of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, on poor households are of great interest to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original participant households and their offspring, about 20 years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114351
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Dividing the spoils : pensions, privatization, and reform in Russia's transition
Kapstein, Ethan B.; Milanović, Branko - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001469308
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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data
Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019
This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167965
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Sustaining poverty gains : a vulnerability map to guide social policy
Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar; Bossuroy, Thomas; Corral … - 2024
Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015044940
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The social value of health insurance : results from Ghana
Garcia Mandico, Silvia; Reichert, Arndt R.; Strupat, … - 2019
This paper uses the roll-out of the national health insurance in Ghana to assess the cushioning effect of coverage on … evidence that the insurance scheme reduced the likelihood that households experiencing a health shock pulled their children out … value of formal health insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114362
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Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?
Giles, John; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen; Zhao, Guochang - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002504
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Beyond the S-curve : insurance penetration, institutional quality and financial market development
Giné, Xavier; Ribeiro, Bernardo; Wrede, Peter - 2019
insurance markets. Based on 20 years of insurance premium data from 180 countries, and a similar wealth of data on institutions … and financial market development, the paper presents important correlates of insurance market development. Although the … analysis cannot identify which factors directly cause insurance market growth, the results suggest that interventions aimed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059017
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Social protection in Latin America : achievements and limitations
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Robalino, David - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661752
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Trust in government and support for redistribution
Silva, Joana; Morgandi, Matteo; Levin, Victoria - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553630