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Do non-monetary prices target the poor? : evidence from a field experiment in India

Hoffmann, Bridget - 2016

This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....

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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour : Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?

Pellerano, Luca - 2019

The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...

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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour : Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?

Pellerano, Luca - 2019

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Income elasticity of child labor : do cash transfers have an impact on the poorest children?

Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-21

The possible nonlinearity of the income elasticity of child labor has been at the center of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...

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The income elasticity of child labour : do cash transfers have an impact on the poorest children?

Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2018

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Causal analysis of policy effects on fertility

Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; … - 2023

This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies from Europe, Northern America, Oceania and Asia. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the...

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The effects of an unconditional cash transfer on mental health in the United States

Pignatti, Clemente; Parolin, Zachary - 2023

Mental health conditions have worsened in many countries in recent decades. The provision of unconditional cash transfers may be one effective policy strategy for improving mental health, but causal evidence on their efficacy is rare in high-income countries. This study investigates the mental...

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...

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Gimme shelter : social distancing and income support in times of pandemic

Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Bernard, Tanguy - 2021

avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …

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Re-thinking social protection : from poverty alleviation to building resilience in middle-income households

Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro; Hoffmann, Bridget; … - 2023

We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...

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