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Alleviating extreme poverty in Chile: the short term effects of Chile Solidario

Galasso, Emanuela - In: Estudios de Economia 38, 1 Year 2011, pp. 101-127

This paper evaluates the effect of an anti-poverty program, Chile Solidario, during its first two years of operation. We find that the program tends to increases significantly their take-up of cash assistance programs and of social programs for housing and employment, and to improve education...

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Long-term earnings and employment effects of housing voucher receipt

Carlson, Deven; Haveman, Robert; Kaplan, Tom; Wolfe, Barbara - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 1, pp. 128-150

Using a propensity score matching approach coupled with difference-in-differences regression analysis, we estimate the …

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Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …

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Assessing the Impact of Poverty Reduction Programs in Vietnam

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper aims to examine the poverty targeting and impacts of three poverty reeducation programs including programs ‘exemption of educational fees’, ‘provision with health care insurance’, and ‘micro-credit for the poor’ in Vietnam. It is found that the three programs have reached...

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Impact Evaluation of Multiple Overlapping Programs using Difference-in-differences with Matching

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method in impact evaluation. Traditional impact evaluation methods … including difference-in-differences with matching often deal with impact measurement of a single binary program. Imbens (1999 …) and Lechner (2001) extend the matching method to the case of multiple mutually exclusive programs. Frölich (2002 …

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Learning from the Extreme Poor: Participatory Approaches to Fostering Child Health in Madagascar

Blanchard, Caroline; Godinot, Xavier; Laureau, Chantal; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Very poor people are often considered ignorant and even incapable of thinking, because they have had no opportunity to gain skill in expression through education. The experience of contempt and exclusion is deep among the poorest, whether they live in rich or poor countries, and it often...

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Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Ginja, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identi ed using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...

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Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...

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Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries

Corak, Miles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...

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Desarrollo socioeconómico y pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe

Mora-Alfaro, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The political and economical reforms applied in Latina American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, since the 80 decade, in the structural adjustment context, produced a break in relation to the development model followed for the majority of these nations, with evident differences between them, in...

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