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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty : A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2013

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions

Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2021

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers …

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The Role of Electoral Incentives for Policy Innovation : Evidence from the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2018

We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our empirical setting is the U.S. welfare reform in 1996, which marked the most dramatic shift in social policy since the New Deal. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors...

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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?

Holzner, Christian - 2011

The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...

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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job; Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - 2021

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...

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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies

Bernecker, Andreas - 2021

Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...

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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes : The Case of Teenage Pregnancy

Cortes, Darwin F.; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Maldonado, Darío - 2021

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness : Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian - 2014

donor countries should carefully consider how both anti-poverty instruments - foreign assistance and decentralization - work …

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Food for Fuel : The Effect of U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2021

losses are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

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Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export : Theory and Evidence

Kasahara, Hiroyuki - 2008

This paper develops an open economy model with heterogeneous final goods producers who simultaneously choose whether to export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and...

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