(SSI) program, which provides cash assistance to low-income children with disabilities, to assess how this relationship … arises. We use a large database of Medicaid administrative records to estimate the causal effects of SSI receipt on children …’s health, using a regression discontinuity design that exploits the rule that low-income children born below a birthweight …

(SSI) program, which provides cash assistance to low-income children with disabilities, to assess how this relationship … arises. We use a large database of Medicaid administrative records to estimate the causal effects of SSI receipt on children …'s health, using a regression discontinuity design that exploits the rule that low-income children born below a birthweight …

significance of considering anticipated effects on women and children during each step of programme design, implementation and … - reinforce gender inequalities and neglect children's needs, and to show ways to prevent these outcomes by enhancing women's and … children's empowerment. In addition to presenting strategies that have shown positive impacts across different programmes and …

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …