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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011

This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … to the poor within each population group (that is, poverty targeted transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …

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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282645

Child care and the welfare to work transition

Lemke, Robert J.; Witt, Robert; Witte, Ann Dryden - 2001

We assess the role of child care in the welfare to work transition using an unusually large and comprehensive data base. Our data are for Massachusetts, a state that began welfare reform in 1995 under a federal waiver, for the period July 1996 through August 1997. We find that both the nature of...

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Child care subsidies and child development

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2008

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently,...

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Child care subsidies, maternal well-being, and child-parent interactions: Evidence from three nationally representative datasets

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both parental and child well-being. Although the effects of child care subsidies on maternal employment and child development have been recently studied, many other dimensions of family...

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The geographic accessibility of child care subsidies and evidence on the impact of subsidy receipt on childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011

This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....

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