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Breastfeeding and child development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2021
breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children …
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Early Life Adversity, Biological Adaptation, and Human Capital
Fink, Günther; Venkataramani, Atheendar; Zanolini, Arianna - 2017
Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments … educational attainment if children are later re-exposed. Our findings highlight the importance of capturing the critical tradeoffs …
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Replicator evolution of welfare stigma : welfare fraud vs. incomplete take-up
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2020
There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits. This study investigates both of these opposing...
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Fear of stigmatization prevents individuals from claiming benefits
Friedrichsen, Jana; Schmacker, Renke - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 26/27, pp. 215-220
The desire to avoid the shame of being dependent on government aid is often cited as a cause of low welfare take-up rates. In contrast to other obstacles, such as transaction costs or a lack of information, little empirical research has been conducted on how stigma affects social benefits...
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Social image concerns and welfare take-up
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905224
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Social image concerns and welfare take-up
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take -up of an individual ly beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take- up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884557
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Social image concerns and welfare take-up
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890164
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency
de Haan, Monique - 2018
parental welfare participation for children from marginal welfare participants, we know very little about intergenerational … spillovers of welfare participation onto the children of average welfare participants. By combining rich administrative data from … welfare participation on children's welfare participation in the general population, as well as the average causal effect for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912430
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Distributional Outcomes of a Decentralized Welfare Program
Galasso, Emanuela; Ravallion, Martin - 2004
Community-level targeting of antipoverty programs is now common. Do local community organizations target the poor better than the central government? In one program in Bangladesh, the answer tends to be yes, but performance varies from village to village. The authors try to explain why. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149176
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Stigma in Welfare Programs
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022
Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079312