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Shooting a moving target : choosing targeting tools for social programs

Beuermann, Diether W.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Stampini, Marco; … - 2024

information before, during, and after the 2020 economic crisis. Updating the PMT data does not improve social welfare relative to … increases social welfare. A dynamic method that uses data on shocks to estimate a variable component of income reduces exclusion … errors and limits the expansion in coverage, increasing social welfare during the economic crisis. We consider these …

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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …

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Re-thinking social protection : from poverty alleviation to building resilience in middle-income households

Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro; Hoffmann, Bridget; … - 2023

We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...

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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023

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Long-term impacts of conditional cash transfers in Latin America : review of the evidence

Molina Millán, Teresa; Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; … - 2016

We review the literature on the long-term impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America. Long-term impacts are defined as those that both: 1) are related to the accumulation of human capital, and; 2) are observed after beneficiary children have reached a later stage of the...

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Six years of Comunidades Solidarias Rurales : impacts on school entry of an ongoing conditional cash transfer program in El Salvador

Sanchez Chico, Ana; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A.; … - 2018

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are important anti-poverty programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. There …

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Interactions between conditional cash transfers and preferred secondary schools in Jamaica

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2022

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...

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Can conditional cash transfers alter the effectiveness of other human capital development policies?

Beuermann, Diether W.; Ramos Bonilla, Andrea; Stampini, … - 2024

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...

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