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Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Walsh, Brian; Feng, Kuishuang; Di … - 2019

Carbon taxes are advocated as efficient fiscal and environmental policies, but they have proven difficult to implement. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food, heating, and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programs...

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Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? : evidence from urban Mexico

Araujo, M. Caridad; Martínez, María Adelaida; … - 2018

We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30...

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How to best fight poverty : the uneven ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on labor earnings

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Quaranta, Roberto - 2022

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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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What do NEETs need? : the effect of combining activation policies and cash transfers

Filippucci, Francesco - 2022

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Can women empowerment help to reduce open defecation in India : evidence from NFHS 4

Chatterjee, Amrita; Agarwal, Shriya - 2019

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Transferencias de ganado, seguridad alimentaria y empoderamiento de la mujer : evidencia de un programa de entrada aleatoria por fases en Nicaragua

Salazar, Lina; Fahsbender, Jossie; Kim, Namho - 2018

also improved by greater protein intake. Moreover , positive impacts on women's empowerment and gender parity within the …

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Livestock transfers, food security and women's empowerment : evidence from a randomized phased-in program in Nicaragua

Salazar, Lina; Fahsbender, Jossie; Kim, Namho - 2018

greater protein intake. Moreover, positive impacts on women’s empowerment and gender parity within the household are found …

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Foreign aid and female empowerment

Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Bonnier, Evelina; Olofsgård, Anders - 2023

We estimate the community-level impact of foreign aid projects on women's empowerment in the country with the most … on an index of female agency and women's sexual and fertility preferences. Gender-targeted aid has a further positive … impact on women's sexual and fertility preferences, and more tentatively on an index focusing on gender-based violence …

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More schooling and more learning? : effects of a three-year conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua after 10 years

Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, … - 2013

CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs, leave little doubt that such programs can increase enrollment and grades attained––in the short term. But evidence is notably lacking...

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