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Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale : Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program

Botea, Ioana; Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Goldstein, Markus P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The success of multi-faceted "graduation" programs at reducing poverty raises three questions: can the impacts of these programs be maintained when implemented by governments at scale, will positive effects be offset by negative spillovers, and can bundled programs be streamlined without losing...

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Intra-household resource shares under poverty transfers : evidence from Ecuador

Casco, José L. - 2022

This paper estimates a structural model of household behavior in the presence of cash transfers to recover the amount … implications of this reallocation of resources in several domains and find that transfers increase the women's control of resources …

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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy

Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019

This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that...

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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?

Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006

Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...

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Cash Transfers and Violent Crime in Indonesia

Cisneros, Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Priebe, Jan; … - 2023

This study investigates the impact of Indonesia’s flagship conditional cash trans- fer (CCT) program—PKH—on violent crime. Exploiting data from a randomized controlled trial and administrative data from the staggered nationwide program roll-out in combination with different causal...

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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City

Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020

Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...

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Cash transfers and female labor force participation : the case of AUH in Argentina

Garganta, Santiago; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 10, pp. 1-22

woman is the main responsible of domestic chores. The relatively large value of the benefit and the fact that transfers are …

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By the Sweat of Their Brow : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Force, Peter - 2016

The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and destitute mothers the means to stay at home and care for children. However, the entry of large numbers of American mothers into the paid workforce has created increasing tension...

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Integration of administrative records for social protection policies : contributions from the Brazilian experience

Bartholo, Letícia; Mostafa, Joana; Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro - 2018

Integrating information for the purpose of articulating social protection policies is hard work. It requires a combination of political will, capacity for institutional cooperation, software development and direct communication channels with citizens. Because of this complexity, countries that...

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Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2018

by personal income taxes, employees' social security contributions and cash transfers, based on household-level micro … overall redistribution, the respective role of various categories of transfers for transfer redistribution; as well as … role across countries. In turn, the decline in the redistributive effect of cash transfers reflected a decline in their …

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