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Migration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia
Mesnard, Alice (contributor) - 2009
This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By … matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for … problems of the sample and the key issue of endogeneity of violence. The main results show that high levels of violence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882425
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Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Medina, Carlos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599346
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358286
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Economic Security Policy and Canada’s National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence : Is there a Role for Cash Transfers in Addressing Intimate Partner Violence?
Cameron, Anna; Tedds, Lindsay M.; Yu, Wenshuang - 2023
The National Action Plan to end Gender-Based Violence, which recently received official endorsement by the Federal … impacted by violence can make a safe exit and recovery.Envisioned in response to the need to better understand how economic … evidence on cash transfers and intimate partner violence—one of the most prevalent forms of gender-based violence—with the aim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344222
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Food and cash transfers : evidence from Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P. (contributor);  … - 2009
We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871312
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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes : the case of teenage pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240855
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Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital : evidence from Colombia
Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana - 2011
cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a CCT in Colombia, attained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308106
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Evaluating the Chile Solidario Program : results using the Chile Solidario panel and the administrative databases : resultados usando el panel Chile Solidario y datos administrativ...
Hoces de la Guardia, Fernando; Hojman, Andrés; … - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 129-168
This paper presents the results of a three-year evaluation performed on the first cohorts of Chile Solidario, the most important anti-poverty program in Chile. The paper presents a description of the program, emphasizing the mechanism by which people were admitted into the program. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311781
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Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia
Baez, Javier - 2011
cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a CCT in Colombia, attained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123916
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The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Children’s School Achievement : Evidence from Colombia
Garcia, Sandra - 2009
During the last decade, conditional cash transfer programs have expanded in developing countries as a way to increase school enrollment and deter youth from dropping out of school. However, despite evidence of these programs' positive impact on school enrollment and attendance, little is known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155759