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The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers
Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...
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The impact of cash transfers on child outcomes in rural Thailand : evidence from a social pension reform
Herrmann, Tabea; Leckcivilize, Attakrit; Zenker, Juliane - In: Journal of the economics of ageing 19 (2021), pp. 1-24
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Mixed effects of remittances on child education
Bucheli, José R.; Bohara, Alok Kumar; Fontenla, Matías - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 10, pp. 1-18
We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment across four key dimensions: gender, household wealth, rural vs. urban, and family migration status. Using a bivariate probit model that accounts for both endogeneity and...
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JUE insight: the impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai
Ding, Kangzhe; Itoh, Ryo - In: Journal of urban economics 136 (2023), pp. 1-8
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The impact of public expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth and income distribution in Peru
Baca Campodónico, Jorge F.; Peschiera Cassinelli, Jorge R. - 2014
expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …
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The health penalty of China's rapid urbanization
Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009
Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …
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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2003
death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
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Effects of forced displacement on health
Zilic, Ivan - 2015
This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991 …-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is … relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach …
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Who carries the burden of reproductive health and AIDS programs? : evidence from OECD donor countries
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2005
This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The … assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by funds and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348349
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The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America : evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico
Quiñones, Esteban J.; Roy, Shalini - 2016
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