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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Conditional Cash Transfers"”.
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Risk-coping Strategies and Aspirations: Impact Evaluations from Peru
… preventive and transformative role of a conditional cash transfer programme in Peru. In particular, we analyse the unintended impact of Juntos on risk-coping strategies (migration and assets accumulation) and aspirations. Since the way risk-coping strategies and aspirations are formed may …
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The Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers for Political Behavior and Human Development
… America, experienced a remarkable expansion in conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in the last fifteen years. Although a large literature examines the effects of CCTs on human development, the political behavioral consequences remain underexplored. In the dissertation, I address this gap by …
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Gender and Human Rights: Experiences of Indigenous Men and Women from San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been regarded as one of the main policy tools to eradicate poverty. The mechanism of CCTs consists on providing cash to low-income families with the co-responsibilities of attending to regular health check-ups, keeping children at school and attending …
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Three Essays on Demand-side Health Policies in India
<p>Demand-side health policies, such as conditional cash transfers and public health insurance, aim to increase the utilization of healthcare services by providing financial incentives and higher purchasing power to under-served populations. With their increasing popularity in developing countries, …
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Challenges Facing Poor Households in Complying with Cash Transfer Conditionalities. A Case of TASAF III at Iguguno Ward in Mkalama District Council
… facing the poor households to comply with cash transfer conditionalities. In the context of the increasing demand of conditional cash transfers in the development agenda of many less developed countries, this research study provides an analytical overview of the challenges faced by the poor …
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Effects of anti-poverty programs on electoral behavior : evidence from the Mexican Education, Health, and Nutrition Program
… programs that usually took the form of conditional cash transfers (CCT). I examine the effects of the Mexican Education, Health, and Nutrition program (Progresa), the first and largest CCT implemented in the region, on electoral behavior. I argue that Progresa not only was substantially …
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Linkages between cash incentives and behaviour change with regards to HIV counselling and testing uptake in adolescents: An assessment of the Rhiva programme in the Khomas region, Namibia
… to assess the efficacy of the RHIVA programme’s cash incentive based theory of change model, focusing on HCT uptake and HIV prevention in Namibia. Consequently, the study sought to understand the impact of structural factors on incentives and behaviour model proposed by the RHIVA theory of change …
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Flourishing Opportunities: Four essays in Applied Econometrics
… sustained support after high school, and that conditional cash transfers foster social engagement.
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Rural risk reduction in Mexico : making national plans for post-earthquake reconstruction more effective at the local level
… by utilizing national savings to provide conditional cash transfers for self-building, with the aim of facilitating housing reconstruction. However, this federal program, like other development programs used by the Mexican government, uses a top-down approach that has been criticized as a …
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Essays on poverty reduction in Latin America
… in poverty reduction programs, particularly Conditional Cash Transfer schemes (CCTs), which have become a critical element in social policy. The effectiveness of CCTs has been a hotly debated topic. Most social programs in Latin America lack data for comprehensive evaluations to be carried …
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An evaluation of alternative transfer designs for the Nicaraguan Red de Protecciòn Social
… evaluate the effects of the transfer design of a conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua for households with two eligible children. The paper then exploits evidence from the experimental implementation of the Red de Protección program to validate its behavioral model and method simulation. …
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Three Essays on Investments in Children's Human Capital
… for boys. Chapter 3: Who Else Benefits from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs? Indirect Effects on Siblings in Nicaragua Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) welfare programs encourage households to invest in the human capital of their children. They offer eligible families cash in exchange for …
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Can development initiatives reduce the recruitment of adolescents to organised crime groups? Perspectives of the recipients of the Prospera Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Mexico
… social impacts of a development initiative, the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in two municipalities in Mexico. The thesis poses questions about the impacts of Development initiatives upon organised crime violence from the perspectives of those living within areas affected by violence. …