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Intended and Unintended Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers : The Case of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad
Hernani-Limarino, Werner L. - 2016
This document presents a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of Bolivia's Renta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999328
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Intended and Unintended Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad
Hernani-Limarino, Werner; Mena, Gary - 2015
This document presents a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad, a universal and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535733
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Impact Evaluation of the Brazilian Non-Contributory Pension Program Benefício De Prestação Continuada (BPC) on Family Welfare
Kassouf, Ana Lucia; de Oliveira, Pedro - 2018
The Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) program is a non‐contributory pension addressed to poor elders over 65 years‐old. This paper evaluates its effects on household composition and on labor market outcomes of the elders and their co‐residing relatives. We could not capture any...
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Separating Anticipatory Labor Supply Response to Old-Age Cash Transfers
Matsuda, Norihiko - 2022
Cash transfers can affect labor supply through two channels: current transfers and anticipated future transfers. I develop a framework that jointly estimates both channels using a difference-in-differences model. I apply the framework to the noncontributory pension program in South Africa, which...
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The unequal impact of raising the retirement age : employment response and program substitution
Ardito, Chiara - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-37
Using high-frequency Italian administrative data, the author studies the heterogeneous effects of a reform raising the normal retirement age (NRA) from 60 years to 65 years for private-sector male employees. The analysis, based on a difference-in-differences (DD) method, shows that the NRA raise...
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The effect of non-contributory pensions on saving in Mexico
Alonso Ortiz, Jorge; Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Juarez, … - 2016
households' saving patterns using micro data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey. The federal program by itself … appears to reduce the saving rate of households whose oldest member is either 18 to 54 or 65 to 69. State programs by … themselves have no significant effects on household saving rates in the smallest localities, but in larger localities they may …
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Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto
Canelas, Carla; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2018
In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
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Targeting performance and poverty effects of proxy means-tested transfers : trade-offs and challenges
Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2015
In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based...
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Accuracy and poverty impacts of proxy means-tested transfers : an empirical assessment for Bolivia
Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2015
In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463386
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Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Nikolov, Plamen - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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