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quality and fidelity of implementation in home visit programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) does not exist. In … light of this gap, this note presents a snapshot of home visit quality in seven countries in which home visits reach a … order to ensure implementation quality. …
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quality education and social cohesion can create a virtuous cycle of productivity outcomes, including job creation and …
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quality and fidelity of implementation in home visit programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) does not exist. In … light of this gap, this note presents a snapshot of home visit quality in seven countries in which home visits reach a … order to ensure implementation quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980307
In this chapter I discuss the history and basic incentive effects of two key U.S. cash assistance programs aimed at families with children. Starting roughly in the 1980s, critics of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program argued that the program -- designed largely to cut...
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Children represent the largest indirect beneficiaries of the U.S. social welfare system. Yet, many questions remain about the direct benefits of cash aid to children. The current understanding of the impacts of cash aid in the U.S. is drawn primarily from studies of in-kind benefits, tax...
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equalizing in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and also in Chile, Costa Rica and Ecuador but, in the latter, their effect is small … countries tend to redistribute more. Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru redistribute below the trend …; Chile, Ecuador and Mexico are on trend; and, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay redistribute above the trend. Fiscal …
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effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor … in classrooms with more experienced caregivers, and classrooms with caregivers who demonstrate higher-quality … interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
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effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor … in classrooms with more experienced caregivers, and classrooms with caregivers who demonstrate higher-quality … interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626015
Patterns of poor relief varied greatly amongst nineteenth century Irish cities. To date, however, there has been little examination of the reasons behind these divergences. One possible factor is the divergent occupational and demographic structures of these cities – ranging from the dramatic...
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This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report a...
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