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sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers …, rather than morbidity, nutritional status, and development. Also, it has generally not been possible to separately estimate …
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college attendance for girls. It also reduced the take-up of welfare benefits by ages 26 and 30 and increased the planned use …
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We study the effects of conditional cash transfers to pregnant women on stillbirths and child survival in Bolivia. Payments are conditional on compliance with medically recommended prenatal care and skilled birth attendance. At a value equivalent to just 1% of monthly household consumption, the...
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Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
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household welfare in terms of consumption expenditure, income, assets and poverty status. The results show large gaps between …Access to reliable energy is central to improvements in living standards and is a Sustainable Development Goal. This … receives on their welfare. We hypothesize that additional hours of electricity have different effects on the poor, the middle …
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. The evaluation of other outcomes also suggests that the level of welfare of the affected individuals has been negatively …
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In this paper we aim to disentangle how sectoral economic growth affects the size of the middle class, using state-level data of Bolivia from 2000 to 2017 and breaking the three main economic activities into subsectors to attain more-specific results. Because the data from Bolivia are limited,...
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The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a comprehensive view and include not only direct taxation and cash benefits, but also indirect taxes and in-kind transfers. We look at two kinds of redistribution: between the...
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