Social protection in the developing world

A Banerjee, R Hanna, BA Olken, DS Lisker - 2024 - nber.org
Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low-and middle-
income countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which …

[图书][B] Good economics for hard times

AV Banerjee, E Duflo - 2019 - books.google.com
The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve
the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's …

Behavioral insights into cash transfers to families with children

LA Gennetian, E Shafir, JL Aber… - Behavioral Science & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Cash transfer programs aim to lessen the harmful effects of economic deprivation by giving
cash or its equivalent directly to people in need. In this article, we combine insights from …

Universal basic incomes versus targeted transfers: Anti-poverty programs in developing countries

R Hanna, BA Olken - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2018 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals articulated by the United Nations,
number one is the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030. While future economic growth …

Conditional cash transfers to alleviate poverty also reduced deforestation in Indonesia

PJ Ferraro, R Simorangkir - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Solutions to poverty and ecosystem degradation are often framed as conflicting. We ask
whether Indonesia's national anti-poverty program, which transfers cash to hundreds of …

Do conditional cash transfers improve economic outcomes in the next generation? Evidence from Mexico

SW Parker, T Vogl - The Economic Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Conditional cash transfer programmes have spread to over 60 countries in the past two
decades, but little is known about their long-term effects. We estimate the lasting impact of …

When the money runs out: Do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation?

S Baird, C McIntosh, B Özler - Journal of Development Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
The five-year evaluation of a cash transfer program targeted to adolescent females points to
both the promise and limitations of cash transfers for persistent welfare gains. Conditional …

Does participation in poverty alleviation programmes increase subjective well-being? Results from a survey of rural residents in Shanxi, China

J Tang, Y Xu, W Ma, S Gao - Habitat International, 2021 - Elsevier
Government programme interventions that improve rural settlements are expected to foster
human development. Although existing studies have shown that rural dwellers can …

Experimental long-term effects of early-childhood and school-age exposure to a conditional cash transfer program

TM Millán, K Macours, JA Maluccio… - Journal of Development …, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerous evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs show positive short-term
impacts, but there is only limited evidence on whether these benefits translate into sustained …

Child marriage: using the Indonesian family life survey to examine the lives of women and men who married at an early age

L Cameron, D Contreras Suarez… - Review of Economics of …, 2023 - Springer
An understanding of the experiences of men and women who marry before adulthood is
important in motivating social change. Using fixed effects estimation (the inclusion of …