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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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development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …
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The Bolivian government fostered an electricity cost supporting scheme to attenuate the effect of the nationwide full lockdown on domestic consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper evaluates its effect on the levels of energy consumption during lockdown, and the monetary savings it...
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Organised crime tightens its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On...
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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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capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to early or late treatment groups. Although the … early treatment group received twice as much in total transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on …
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capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to early or late treatment groups. Although the … early treatment group received twice as much in total transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on …
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This paper evaluates the impacts of a public program that introduced access to part-time childcare centers for children … children's and parental outcomes. Our identification strategy exploits the original randomization and the distance to the …
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