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The long(er)-term impacts of Chile Solidario on human capital and labour incomeThis paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children’s health and education. We...
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Campaign externalities, programmatic spending, and voting preferences in rural MexicoThis study presents an analysis of the electoral impacts of one of the most prominent conditional cash transfers in the world: Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. Using population censuses, and POP’s administrative records and...
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Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia’s Bono Juancito PintoIn 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The...
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Voter coercion and pro-poor redistribution in rural MexicoVoter coercion is a recurrent threat to pro-poor redistribution in young democracies. In this study we focus on Mexico’s paradigmatic Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. We investigate whether local mayors exploited POP to coerce voters...
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Schooling and Labor Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto ProgramPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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The Long(er)‐Term Impacts of Chile Solidario on Human Capital and Labor IncomePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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Redistribution, inequality and political participationThis paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial crisis...