[…] children’s SWB; but the mothers’ financial situation was, associated with girls’ well-being. The father’s subjective feelings about his financial situation were only associated with well-being of girls but not boys. Overall, the household’s financial circumstance appears to have a greater impact on the SWB of girls rather than boys. Discussions of the findings are provided.

[…] in national tests of Mathematics and English for pupils of age 14 and in increasing attendance at school. We find the policy to have had a positive impact on school attendance and performance in Mathematics (though not for English). There is marked heterogeneity in the effectiveness of the policy. Its greatest impact has been […]

[…] have positive entitlements, a statistical model is estimated for the probability of take-up of the entitlement. A well established result in the literature has been the positive impact of the benefit entitlement level on the claiming decision. In other words, sufficiently large levels of entitlements work as an incentive for more people to overcome […]

[…] have positive entitlements, a statistical model is estimated for the probability of take-up of the entitlement. A well established result in the literature has been the positive impact of the benefit entitlement level on the claiming decision. In other words, sufficiently large levels of entitlements work as an incentive for more people to overcome […]

[…] have positive entitlements, a statistical model is estimated for the probability of take-up of the entitlement. A well established result in the literature has been the positive impact of the benefit entitlement level on the claiming decision. In other words, sufficiently large levels of entitlements work as an incentive for more people to overcome […]

[…] have positive entitlements, a statistical model is estimated for the probability of take-up of the entitlement. A well established result in the literature has been the positive impact of the benefit entitlement level on the claiming decision. In other words, sufficiently large levels of entitlements work as an incentive for more people to overcome […]

[…] to migrate. This paper analyzes indirect and direct effects of a poverty program on domestic and international migration in rural communities in Mexico. Particularly, we study the impact of Progresa (renamed Oportunidades) on migration. We apply Regression Discontinuity Design techniques to estimate the effects on two non-experimental samples. Additionally, we use simple difference-in-difference techniques […]

There is a growing literature on women’s wealth holdings compared to men which focuses on the impact of women’s patterns of labour market participation and the gender wage gap on women’s ability to build up assets and savings for the future. A major policy concern is the longer term impact on pensions and financial […]

[…] price volatility to capture uncertainty. Flexible semiparametric baselines are preferred and reveal declining hazard rates (conditional probabilities of transition). Increased local unemployment volatility has a significant negative impact on the conditional probability of transition, and dominates broad regional differences. Increased local house price volatility has a no significant impact. Conditioning the model for background […]

[…] have positive entitlements, a statistical model is estimated for the probability of take-up of the entitlement. A well established result in the literature has been the positive impact of the benefit entitlement level on the claiming decision. In other words, sufficiently large levels of entitlements work as an incentive for more people to overcome […]