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Long-Term Effects of Prospera on Welfare
Aguilar, Arturo A - 2019
The long-term effects of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, on poor households are of great interest to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original participant households and their offspring, about 20 years after...
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Tackling Social Exclusion : Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2017
in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression …
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Social Protection in a Crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes Y Jefas
Galasso, Emanuela - 2017
partially compensate many losers from the crisis, and reduced extreme poverty …
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Grow, Invest, Insure : A Game Plan to End Extreme Poverty by 2030
Gill, Indermit S. - 2017
As global extreme poverty has fallen -- by one measure, from close to 2 billion people in 1990 to about 700 million … extreme poverty. In the 1960s and 1970s, when close to half of the world was living in extreme poverty, the approach that … investing in education, health, and family planning. When extreme poverty rates came down?first in East Asia and then in other …
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A Financial Social Accounting Matrix for the Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty Analysis : Application to Cameroon with a Fixed-Price Multiplier Analysis
Emini, Christian Arnault; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2013
Cameroon is engaged in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, which emphasizes increased focus on poverty … reduction in the design and implementation of growth and adjustment strategies. The Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty … process and quantifying poverty reduction strategies. Drawing on that framework, this paper provides a detailed financial …
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Making Up People -- the Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society
Hoff, Karla - 2017
It is typically assumed that being hard-working or clever is a trait of the person, in the sense that it is always there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional caste order turn out to influence the expression of these...
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Caste System
Hoff, Karla - 2017
In standard economics, individuals are rational actors and economic forces undermine institutions that impose large inefficiencies. The persistence of the caste system is evidence of the need for psychologically more realistic models of decision-making in economics. The caste system divides...
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Neighborhood Effects in Integrated Social Policies
Bobba, Matteo - 2017
When potential beneficiaries share their knowledge and attitudes about a policy intervention, their decision to participate and the effectiveness of both the policy and its evaluation may be influenced. This matters most notably in integrated social policies with several components. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959135
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Challenges and Opportunities of Mobile Phone-Based Data Collection : Evidence from South Sudan
Demombynes, Gabriel - 2017
The proliferation of mobile phones in developing countries has generated a wave of interest in collecting high-frequency socioeconomic surveys using this technology. This paper considers lessons from one such survey effort in a difficult environment -- the South Sudan Experimental Phone Survey,...
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Information and Participation in Social Programs
Coady, David P. - 2017
Participation in social programs, such as clubs and other social organizations, results from a process in which an agent learns about the requirements, benefits, and likelihood of acceptance related to a program, applies to be a participant, and, finally, is accepted or rejected. The authors...
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