Search Results - subject:"CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS"

Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor : Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program

Bourguignon, Francois; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - In: The World Bank Economic Review 17 (2003) 2, pp. 229-253

A growing number of developing economies are providing cash transfers to poor people that require certain behaviors on their part, such as attending school or regularly visiting health care facilities. A simple ex ante methodology is proposed for evaluating such programs and used to assess the...

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Are Conditional Cash Transfers Effective in Urban Areas? Evidence from Mexico

Behrman, Jere R.; Gallardo-Garcia, Jorge; Parker, Susan W. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2011

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide as a new form of social assistance for the poor. Previous evaluations of CCT programs focus mainly on rural settings, and little is known about their effects in urban areas. This paper studies the short-term (one and two-year)...

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Evaluating the impact of conditional cash transfer programs on fertility: the case of the Red de Protección Social in Nicaragua

Todd, Jessica; Winters, Paul; Stecklov, Guy - In: Journal of Population Economics 25 (2011) 1, pp. 267-290

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Cash transfer programs and child health in Brazil

Reis, Mauricio - In: Economics Letters 108 (2010) 1, pp. 22-25

This note presents evidence from Brazil that children who benefit from cash transfer programs have better health …

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Child Care Provision: Semiparametric Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico.

Dubois, Pierre; Rubio-Codina, Marta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We semiparametrically estimate the impact of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades on the time mothers and older sisters spend taking care of children aged under 3, using the randomization of the program placement and the methodology in Lewbel (2000). Results support the...

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Chapter 62 Evaluating Conditional Schooling and Health Programs

Parker, Susan W.; Rubalcava, Luis; Teruel, Graciela - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3963-4035). 2007

conditional cash transfer programs. The chapter thus analyzes what we know about the success of conditional cash transfer programs … transfer programs which have become widespread across Latin America and are now extending outside the region. Conditional …We analyze in this chapter the development and evaluation of a new genre of social programs termed conditional cash …

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The Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean

Handa, Sudhanshu; Davis, Benjamin - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

This paper discusses the experience of six conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America, a model of social … while conditional cash transfer programs have generally been successful in terms of reaching their core objective, it is …

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Evaluating Conditional Schooling and Health Programs

Parker, Susan W.; Rubalcava, Luis; Teruel, Graciela - In: Handbook of Development Economics

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