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Why cash transfer programs can both stimulate and slow down job finding

Mesén Vargas, Juliana; Van der Linden, Bruno - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 5, pp. 1-27

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of cash transfer programs when jobless people need to have access to a minimum consumption level. Our model reconciles recent evidence about negligible or favorable effects of cash transfers on job-finding rates and the more standard view of negative...

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Do cash transfers foster resilience? : evidence from rural Niger

Premand, Patrick; Stoeffler, Quentin - 2020

Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future climatic shocks. Cash transfer programs have had widely documented positive welfare impacts. They often also aim to offer protection against shocks, but their role in fostering...

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Expansion of Djibouti's National Family Solidarity Program : understanding targeting performance of the updated proxy means test formula

Mendiratta, Vibhuti; Moubarak, Amr; Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; … - 2019

nearly 0.7 percentage point reduction in poverty nationally and 3.4- 4.1 percentage reductions in the regions. These results … with geographic targeting in high-poverty districts. The results also show the relevance and effectiveness of PMT as a …

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Do Services and Transfers Reach Morocco's Poor? Evidence from Poverty and Spending Maps

Van de Walle, Dominique - 2012

In the absence of household level data on participation in public programs, spending allocations and poverty measures …

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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation

Verme, Paolo - 2012

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

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Income elasticity of child labor : do cash transfers have an impact on the poorest children?

Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-21

The possible nonlinearity of the income elasticity of child labor has been at the center of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...

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Intrahousehold responses to imbalanced human capital subsidies : evidence from the Philippine conditional cash transfer program

Raitzer, David A.; Batmunkh, Odbayar; Yarcia, Damaris - 2021

Extensive global evidence suggests that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) encourage long-term investment in human capital by poor households. However, CCTs also have the potential to distort incentives for investment among children. If only some children in the household are monitored/subsidized...

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Socioeconomic effects of COVID-19 in Mexico : a multisectoral approach and policy options

Hernández-Solano, Alan; López-López, Jhair; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-20

two alternatives for mitigating them: an unconditional cash transfer scheme for households living in poverty, and the … of poverty. …

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Safety nets, health crises and natural disasters : lessons from Sierra Leone

Sandford, Judith; Rajput, Sumati; Coll-Black, Sarah; … - 2019

This case study suggests how shock-responsive social protection systems can be the basis of a government-led response to a health crisis and a rapid-onset disaster. It also points to how linking pre-arranged finance to safety nets can help with quick delivery of cash to vulnerable populations...

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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …

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