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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
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Welfare reform: The US experience
Moffitt, Robert - 2008
positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273984
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Health insurance for the poor in India
Ahuja, Rajeev - 2004
Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the low-income people living in developing countries. The universal health insurance scheme, launched recently by the Prime Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807533
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The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2008
of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273965
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Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability, Poverty and Risk in Low Income Households
Bali Swain, Ranjula; Floro, Maria - 2007
Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …
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Cheaper children, more children
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2008
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care...
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I'm not fat, just too short for my weight: Family child care and obesity in Germany
Mahler, Philippe - 2007
Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in body weight but cannot explain the dramatic increase in the last two decades. The increase must be due to structural and behavioral changes. One such behavioral change is the...
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Selfish and prospective theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
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The marginal propensity to earn, consume and save out of unearned income in South Africa
Bengtsson, Niklas - 2010
We use a rapid introduction of an unconditional cash grant (child support) in South Africa to estimate the marginal propensity to consume and earn out of a permanent change in unearned income. We find that the marginal propensity to earn is about to -0.25 for single-adult households, and...
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The social policies of emerging economies: Growth and welfare in China and India
de Haan, Arjan - 2013
Social policies play a critical role in the transformation of emerging economies. This paper discusses this with reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does not pay much attention to social policy or regards it...
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