Long-term impacts of conditional cash transfers: Review of the evidence

TM Millán, T Barham, K Macours… - The World Bank …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, started in the late 1990s in Latin
America, have become the antipoverty program of choice in many develo** countries in …

The effect of female economic empowerment interventions on the risk of intimate partner violence: A systematic review and meta-analysis

I Eggers Del Campo, JI Steinert - Trauma, Violence, & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Women's economic empowerment is an essential component of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals. Not only is it an end in itself but it has further been …

Voluntary rewards mediate the evolution of pool punishment for maintaining public goods in large populations

T Sasaki, S Uchida, X Chen - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Punishment is a popular tool when governing commons in situations where free riders
would otherwise take over. It is well known that sanctioning systems, such as the police and …

Turning a shove into a nudge? A “labeled cash transfer” for education

N Benhassine, F Devoto, E Duflo, P Dupas… - American Economic …, 2015 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital
investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized …

[PDF][PDF] Interventions for improving learning outcomes and access to education in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

B Snilstveit, J Stevenson, D Phillips… - 3ie Systematic …, 2015 - academia.edu
Education is considered essential for sustainable development and is a fundamental human
right, as stated by article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN, 2013a) …

Cash transfers and child labor

J De Hoop, FC Rosati - The World Bank Research Observer, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labor is prevalent. Although
many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory …

Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru

LG Borga, C D'ambrosio - World development, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of three large-scale social-protection schemes in Ethiopia, India,
and Peru on multidimensional poverty. Using data from the Young Lives cohort study, we …

Cash transfers, food prices, and nutrition impacts on nonbeneficiary children

D Filmer, J Friedman, E Kandpal… - World Bank Policy …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Based on a randomized evaluation, the paper shows that a household-targeted Philippine
cash transfer program significantly raised the local price of key foods relevant for child …

Cash transfers, microentrepreneurial activity, and child work: evidence from Malawi and Zambia

J De Hoop, V Groppo, S Handa - The World Bank Economic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cash transfer programs are rapidly becoming a key component of the social safety net of
many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The primary aim of these programs is to help …

Delivering education to the underserved through a public-private partnership program in Pakistan

F Barrera-Osorio, DS Blakeslee, M Hoover… - Review of Economics …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
We evaluate a program that recruited local entrepreneurs to open and operate new schools
in 200 underserved villages in Sindh, Pakistan. School operators received a per student …