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Targeting the poor: a macroeconomic analysis of cash transfer programs
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia, 2011-12-14)
This paper introduces cash transfers targeting the poor in an incomplete markets model with heterogeneous agents facing idiosyncratic risk. These transfers change the degree of insurance in the economy and affect precautionary ...
Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer program
(Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2009)
Family Trajectories and Terminations in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Case of Chile's Ethical Family Wage Program
(2018)
On an international scale, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have rapidly expanded. Since their boom in the 1990s newer modalities have emerged, incorporating some innovative components. The following study sought ...
Conditional cash transfers and child labor
(2022-04-01)
Child labor is a pernicious problem throughout the developing world, but conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) could reduce the number of working children. We evaluate the effectiveness of CCTs at attenuating child ...
Expectancies beyond development: Towards a prospective chronology of cash transfer from Mexico to Argentina
(Berghahn Books, 2018)
In this paper, we reconstruct the anticipatory scenarios towards which cash transfer programs have been implemented in two Latin American countries. Given that the fulfillment of cash transfer objectives can neither be ...
Cash transfer policies, taxation and the fall in inequality in Brazil an integrated microsimulation-CGE analysis
(International Microsimulation Association, 2016)
Persistent and very high-income inequality is a well-known feature of the Brazilian economy. However, from 2001 to 2014, the Gini index registered an unprecedented fall of 13.5% percent, combined with significant poverty ...
The impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia conditional cash transfer program on enrollment, dropout rates and grade promotion in Brazil
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BVAMSTERDAM, 2012)
We examine the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Escola/Familia program on Brazilian children's education outcomes. Bolsa provides cash payments to poor households if their children (ages 6 to 15) are enrolled in school. Using ...