Search Results - subject:"Conditional Transfers"

You get what you pay for: Schooling incentives and child labor

Edmonds, Eric V.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - In: Journal of Development Economics 111 (2014) C, pp. 196-211

Can schooling promotion deter child participation in hazardous forms of child labor? We examine two interventions intended to promote schooling and deter child labor for children associated with carpet factories in Kathmandu. The first intervention provides scholarships for school-related...

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You get what you pay for : schooling incentives and child labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Journal of development economics 111 (2014), pp. 196-211

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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013

We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...

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Multidimensional Targeting: Identifying Beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

Azevedo, Viviane; Robles, Marcos - In: Social Indicators Research 112 (2013) 2, pp. 447-475

Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) have two main objectives: reducing poverty and increasing the human capital of children. To reach these objectives, transfers are given to poor households conditioned on investments in their children’s education, health, and nutrition. Targeting...

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Impure public technologies and environmental policy

Markandya, Anil; Rübbelke, Dirk T.G. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 39 (2012) 2, pp. 128-143

provision of impure public goods. The paper employs the example of international conditional transfers targeted to overcome … fact starts to happen at a lower per capita income level. The scope for conditional transfers is still there, although the … technologies where an efficient solution requires conditional transfers, i.e. payments from one country to another to undertake a …

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Impure public technologies and environmental policy

Markandya, Anil; Rübbelke, Dirk T.G. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 39 (2012) May, pp. 128-143

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610868

Conditional cash transfers, schoolingand child labor: micro-simulating bolsa escola

Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - 2003

Cash transfers targeted to poor people, but conditional on some behavior on their part, such as school attendance or regular visits to health care facilities, are being adopted in a growing number of developing countries. Even where ex-post impact evaluations have been conducted, a number of...

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Conditional cash transfers, schoolingand child labor: micro-simulating bolsa escola

Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2003

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Ex-ante Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Case of Bolsa Escola

Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - 2002

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Ex-ante Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Case of Bolsa Escola

Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

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