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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation
Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are...
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
-eligible individual is female. We provide suggestive evidence that this positive effect results from the income effect of the scheme …
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Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto
Canelas, Carla; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2018
In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
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Schooling and Labour Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto
Canelas, Carla - 2018
In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923383
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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South: A comparative assessment
Lastunen, Jesse; de Mahieu, Antoine; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024
sources of disposable income across the income distribution and estimating the contributions of different policy instruments …
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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana
Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015
This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …
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Estimates of multidimensional poverty for India using NSSO-71 and -75
Mothkoor, Venugopal; Badgaiyan, Nina - 2021
use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13 … chronic conditions. Income is the dominant instrument with the highest contribution to the MPI, followed by insurance. Cooking …
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Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women's work between income generation, expenditure-saving, and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Kabeer, Naila - 2021
Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women's low labour force participation. In developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women are involved in expenditure-saving activities, i.e....
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Wage inequality, firm characteristics, and firm wage premia in South Africa
Foster, Shakeba - 2023
This paper investigates the role of firm characteristics in driving wage inequality and firm wage premia in the South African labour market. The Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (AKM) and Kline, Saggio, and Sølvsten (KSS) regression-based decomposition methods are applied to matched...
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Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme
Sebastian, Ashwini; de la O Campos, Ana Paula; Daidone, … - 2016
We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school,...
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