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This paper evaluates current payment schemes employed by the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in the Philippines using six assessment criteria: transaction cost, security/risks, speed and timeliness, acceptability, resilience and flexibility. Employing data collected at the regional...
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to be enrolled for education monitoring. We find no evidence that households select children for education monitoring to …
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health and education of their children. Previous impact evaluation studies of the program show that the program has been …'s impact on short-term and intermediate outcomes on health, education, household welfare, and other sociobehavioral domains … still shows desirable impacts on most of the target education and health outcomes of children and pregnant women. The …
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differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … families receiving the "education" transfer, which targeted 6-18 year-olds, perceived no benefit. In comparison with other …
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differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … families receiving the "education" transfer, which targeted 6-18 year-olds, perceived no benefit. In comparison with other …
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This paper explores how a conditional cash transfer program influences students’ schooling decisions when program payments stop in the middle of the school career. To that end, I examine Mexico’s Progresa, which covered students only until the end of middle school (at age 15) in its early...
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One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals−gender parity in all levels of education−is widely … households' education decisions into enrollment, education expenditure, and share of the education expenditure allocated for the … quality of education like private tutoring. We find a strong pro-female bias in school enrollment but pro-male bias in the …
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This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient´s demand for health services, and that …
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