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This paper evaluates the impact of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) in Turkey, the largest cash transfer program for international refugees in the world. The paper provides prima facie evidence that the program quickly caused substantial changes in household size and composition, with a...
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Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social safety net intervention (PSNP) operates. Even though...
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differences in household durables or livestock are observed. Overall, these findings suggest that cash transfer programs targeting …
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Signs of development delays and malnutrition are widespread among young children in low-income settings. Social protection programs such as cash transfers are increasingly combined with behavioral change promotion or parenting interventions to improve early childhood development. This paper...
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indicators often targeted in women's empowerment programs, such as gender norms and female employment and education. These …
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This paper builds on the existing literature assessing retrospectively the quantitative effects of natural disasters on different dimensions of household welfare, to make progress toward the ex ante identification of households that are vulnerable to poverty due to natural disasters, especially...
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cost based on WTA is substantially lower than actual payments. Simulation of three geographic targeting approaches shows …
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. The method outperforms common targeting methods, such as proxy means tests and the targeting method currently used by …
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enrollment offer an unexplored targeting benefit over UCTs: CCTs target money to households that forgo a discrete amount of child … income. This paper shows that the size of this targeting benefit is directly related to the distribution of parental incomes … variation in transfers to younger siblings to identify income effects. In this setting, the analysis finds that the targeting …
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measures ensure that priority is given to the poorest among the poor while targeting, monitoring and evaluating poverty …
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