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Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
The American Economic Review, 2023 We compare how in-kind food assistance and an electronic voucher-based program affect the delivery of aid in practice. The Government of Indonesia randomized across 105 districts the transition from in-kind rice to approximately equivalent electronic ...
A. Banerjee +4 more
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La privatización de las pensiones: tres décadas de fracasos*
El Trimestre Económico, 2019 Entre 1981 y 2014, unos 30 países privatizaron total o parcialmente sus sistemas de pensiones públicas obligatorias; en 2018 unos 18 países habían revertido las privatizaciones.
Isabel Ortiz +4 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 This study compares the protective effectiveness of Social Safety Nets (SSNs) provided by government and NGOs in rural Pakistan, using quasi-experimental methodology on PRPHS (2011–12) data.
Samina Naveed +2 more
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The American Economic Review, 2019 This paper documents a significant association between the exposure of an individual or area to the UK government’s austerity-induced welfare reforms begun in 2010, and the following: the subsequent rise in support for the UK Independence Party, an ...
T. Fetzer
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Adequacy (Poverty Line of Sharia) the Strongest Scale for Eradicating Child Labor [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2013 Forced labor for children and their employment in the labor market when they should grow and develop skills for their future life will cause them serious harms which can in turn result in negative consequences for their whole life.
Mojtaba Bagheri Todeshki
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Origins and impact of the welfare state, 1883-1983
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 The article is concerned with the large and continuous growth of “welfare state” expenditures. It analyses the reasons for the emergence of the welfare state and its impact on economic growth. The work is intended as a diagnosis of this growth since 1883,
A. MADDISON
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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 Using a 1993 Dutch policy reform and a regression discontinuity design, we find children of parents whose disability insurance (DI) eligibility was reduced are 11 percent less likely to participate in DI themselves, do not alter their use of other ...
Gordon B. Dahl, A. Gielen
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Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
Social Science Research Network, 2021 This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 benefit recipients were randomized to receive a monthly ...
J. Verho +2 more
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Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous research has extensively investigated the impact of post‐training sleep and wakefulness on procedural memory consolidation across development. However, results regarding how offline processes specifically affect the explicit and implicit components of newly acquired procedural skills in children and adults remain controversial.
D. Voisin +4 more
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In-Kind Transfers as Insurance
Social Science Research Network, 2021 Households in developing countries often face variation in the prices of consumption goods. We develop a model demonstrating that in-kind transfers will provide insurance benefits against price risk if the covariance between the marginal utility of ...
Lucie Gadenne +3 more
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