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The Coffee Crisis, Early Childhood Development, and Conditional Cash Transfers
Gitter, Seth R.; Manley, James; Barham, Bradford - 2011
This paper examines the efficacy of three conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua in mitigating the potential negative effects of an income shock caused by falling prices of coffee, an important cash crop to many CCT participants. A theoretical household model...
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Can a pay-for-performance program help the vulnerable find jobs during a pandemic? Experimental evidence from Empleate in Colombia
Gómez, María Fernanda; González-Velosa, Carolina - 2023
During a period of COVID-19-induced job losses and mobility restrictions, the government of Colombia's launched Empléate, an innovative Pay-for-performance (P4P) program that targeted impoverished and vulnerable workers. Empléate operated at a national scale and had a novel financial...
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The ineffectiveness of "observe and report" patrols on crime
Fabbri, Marco; Klick, Jonathan - In: International review of law and economics 65 (2021), pp. 1-9
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Mind the Gap: Bridging the Perception and Reality of Crime Rates with Information
Ardanaz, Martin; Corbacho, Ana; Ruiz-Vega, Mauricio - 2014
Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of … objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety and …
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Does Participatory Budgeting Improve Decentralized Public Service Delivery?
Beuermann, Diether W.; Amelina, Maria - 2014
This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...
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Training Vouchers and Labor Market Outcomes in Chile
Kaplan, David S.; Novella, Rafael; Rucci, Graciana; … - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact of the Bono Trabajador Activo, a training voucher program in Chile, on workers' labor market outcomes. Using detailed administrative datasets of the National Employment Service and the Unemployment Insurance System, we apply difference-in-difference and IV...
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The effects of tenure security on women's empowerment and food security: Evidence from a land regularization program in Ecuador
Schling, Maja; Pazos, Nicolas; Corral, Leonardo; … - 2023
This paper evaluates the impact of a rural land administration program in Ecuador on female empowerment and household food security. Using a double robust estimation that combines the difference-in-difference approach with inverse probability weighting, we explore whether receiving a...
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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile
Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020
Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor market and skill outcomes using experimental and...
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Knowledge for results and the efficiency of public agencies in Colombia
Arisi, Diego; Cortés, Alix; Delic, Diego; Rossi, … - 2022
This paper documents the effects of an intervention on knowledge sharing, in which information embedded in efficient private organizations is used to improve bureaucratic procedures of public agencies. In particular, it analyzes the impact of the Knowledge for Results (K4R) program on the...
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The impact of smart subsidies on agricultural production: Innovative evidence from Argentina using survey and remote sensing data
Schling, Maja; Pazos, Nicolás - 2022
estimates yield changes and can be used to monitor and assess this type of intervention in real time and at a low cost. …
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