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Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly understood. This study investigates a policy...
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Neighborhood Effects in Integrated Social Policies
Bobba, Matteo - 2017
context of a conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico. These effects are identified using exogenous variations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959135
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Can Environmental Cash Transfers Reduce Deforestation and Improve Social Outcomes? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Mexico's National Program (2011-2014)
Alix‐Garcia, Jennifer - 2019
impacts of Mexico's national payments for ecosystem services program, which provides five years of payments to landowners in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894657
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Living on the Edge : Vulnerability to Poverty and Public Transfers in Mexico
de la Fuente, Alejandro - 2017
Social policy in Mexico has focused on identifying and supporting chronically poor households. Yet, Mexico has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972245
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Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2017
applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974648
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2017
examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …
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Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration : The Role of Migration Networks
McKenzie, David J. - 2016
The authors examine the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration … from Mexico, the authors then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low … self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven …
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Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments : Evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety
Hirvonen, Kalle - 2020
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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The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers
Bergstrom, Katy - 2020
the price effect of a CCT. These elasticities are estimated for a large CCT program in rural Mexico, Progresa, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844685
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Estimating the Welfare Costs of Reforming the Iraq Public Distribution System : A Mixed Demand Approach
Krishnan, Nandini - 2017
The Iraqi Public Distribution System is the largest universal, in-kind subsidy system in the world. In 2012, the Public Distribution System transfers accounted for as much as 30 percent of incomes of the poorest 10 percent of the Iraqi population and provided 70 percent of the calories of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951525