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Sexual Behavior Change Intentions and Actions in the Context of a Randomized Trial of a Conditional Cash Transfer for HIV Prevention in Tanzania
Packel, Laura - 2017
-prevention interventions. Based on an incentives-based HIV prevention trial in Tanzania, the longitudinal dataset in this paper allows the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975374
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Cash Transfers and Health : Evidence from Tanzania
Evans, David - 2017
of a program in Tanzania and finds nuanced impacts. An initial surge in clinic visits after 1.5 years -- due to more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967479
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Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods : A Review of Global Evidence
Evans, David - 2017
that concerns about the use of cash transfers for alcohol and tobacco consumption are unfounded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973201
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The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers
Bergstrom, Katy - 2020
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844685
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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Poland
Goraus-Tanska, Karolina - 2017
This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether there is room for an increased role for fiscal policy in improving the wellbeing of the poor. The results show that the combined effect of taxes and social spending helped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968208
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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo - 2017
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that are given to all children and the elderly (that is, "categorical" transfers), to programs of equal budget that are confined to the poor within each population group (that is,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975646
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How Do Ex Ante Simulations Compare with Ex Post Evaluations? Evidence from the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
Leite, Phillippe G. - 2017
This paper compares the ex ante simulation of the impacts of conditional cash transfer programs against the ex post estimates of impacts obtained from experimental evaluations. Using data on program-eligible households in treatment areas from the same baseline surveys that are used for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975925
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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation
Verme, Paolo - 2008
This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues of impact evaluations such as selection bias, behavioral responses, unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity, an incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216917
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What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal About the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?
Gibson, John - 2017
This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania … to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974595
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The Consumption, Income, and Wealth of the Poorest : Cross-Sectional Facts of Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa for Macroeconomists
de Magalhaes, Leandro - 2017
This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … poorest countries in the world ? Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda ? all located in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The first finding is … transmission from income to consumption inequality, which suggests the presence of powerful institutions that favor consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971514