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¿Funciona integrar servicios de primera infancia con los servicios de salud? : evidencia experimental del programa de visitas domiciliarias Cresça Com Seu Filho
López Bóo, Florencia; Paz Ferro, María de la; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586120
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Paying patients for prenatal care : the effect of a small cash transfer on stillbirths and survival
Celhay, Pablo; Johannsen, Julia; Martinez, Sebastian; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715444
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A minimum income guarantee amidst joblessness & vulnerability : a design for income transfers post-Covid 19 and beyond
Mehrotra, Santosh K.; Rajagopalan, Anjana; Kumar, … - 2020
Amidst the bleak picture of increasing joblessness and indebtedness presented by the National Sample Survey's employment surveys and debt surveys, a minimum standard of living for the nation's poor seems to be under threat. In response to this, recent schemes inspired by the Universal Basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233583
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458514
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Do behavioral drivers matter for healthcare decision-making in times of Crisis? : a study of low-income women in El Salvador during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bernal, Pedro; Daga, Giuliana; Kossuth, Lajos; López … - 2023
with COVID-19 prevention behaviors and mothers' micronutrient treatment adherence for children, and optimism bias and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546236
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School health programs : education, health, and welfare dependency of young adults
Abrahamsen, Signe A.; Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie - 2021
also improved the health of newborns of affected new mothers and reduced the likelihood of miscarriages. …
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Labeled loans and human capital investments
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2023
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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Disability insurance income saves lives
Gelber, Alexander M.; Moore, Timothy J.; Pei, Zhuan; … - 2022
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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? : measuring the impact of Mexico's seguro popular
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2011
Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers’ incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
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Labour supply disincentives of income support : an analysis of single mothers with no qualifications in the UK
Soobedar, Zeenat - 2009
This paper examines the labour supply disincentives of the Income Support system among single mothers with no … withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose youngest child turns 16. At this cut-off age, barely ineligible mothers … pronounced labour supply disincentives of the income support policy. -- Single mothers ; Income Support ; Labour supply …
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