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Do cash transfers trigger investments? : evidence from Peru

Cirillo, Cristina; Giovannetti, Giorgia - 2018

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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation

Dedry, Antoine - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of demographic aging on capital accumulation and welfare in economies with unfunded pensions. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, it shows that both the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or...

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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation

Dedry, Antoine - 2015

This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009863

The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Mental Health and Investments : Experimental Evidence from Mali

Hidrobo, Melissa; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Roy, Shalini - 2022

Stress and cognitive burden associated with poverty constrain decision-making regarding investments in the future, which can in turn perpetuate poverty. We exploit the randomized roll-out of Mali’s national cash transfer program to estimate its impact on measures of psychological and emotional...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264728

Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean : Coverage and Investment Trends

Cecchini, Simone - 2017

This document analyses the evolution of the population coverage and investment of conditional cash transfer (CCT … amounts of each CCT programme. The paper finds that both CCT programme coverage and investment increased significantly in the … — with an investment equivalent to 0.33% of regional GDP, or USUS$ 153 per capita. Preliminary data for 2016 suggest a …

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Stochastic transfers, risky investment and incomes : evidence from an income guarantee program in Thailand

Wagener, Andreas; Zenker, Juliane - 2015

impact of the program on risk attitudes and investment behavior of small-scale rice farmers in relatively poor North …

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Decoupled but not neutral : the effects of stochastic transfers on investment and incomes in rural Thailand

Wagener, Andreas; Zenker, Juliane - 2018

In 2009, the Thai government implemented a price insurance scheme for rice farmers. The program, which was abandoned after only one year, added to the incomes of registered farmers a non-negative but stochastic amount that was decoupled from farmers' agricultural activities. A rich panel data...

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Cash transfers and investments in Latin America

Martinez, Sebastian Wilde - 2005

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Poor households' productive investments of cash transfers : quasi-experimental evidence from Niger

Stoeffler, Quentin; Mills, Bradford F.; Premand, Patrick - In: Journal of African economies 29 (2020) 1, pp. 63-89

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The impacts of cash transfers on mental health and investments : experimental evidence from Mali

Hidrobo, Melissa; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Roy, Shalini - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 216 (2023), pp. 608-630

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