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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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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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Organizational efficiency or bureaucratic quagmire: Do quality at entry assessments improve project performance?

Corral, Leonardo R.; McCarthy, Nancy - 2017

activities and cost outlays, as well as percent of loan disbursed. The analysis suggests higher scores on project logic and …

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Impact evaluation of a cluster program: An application of synthetic control methods

Aboal, Diego; Crespi, Gustavo; Perera, Marcelo - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of a cluster tourism policy in the region of Colonia, Uruguay. The policy was implemented as part of an IDB-supported program. The study conducted a comparative analysis of Colonia vs. other tourism regions of the country applying a synthetic control method. This...

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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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Innovation, productivity, and spillovers effects: Evidence from Chile

Crespi, Gustavo; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, Alessandro - 2019

This paper estimates the direct and spillover effects of two matching grants schemes designed to promote firm-level research and development (R&D) investment in Chile on firm productivity. Because the two programs target different kinds of projects - the National Productivity and Technological...

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