书目名称 | Child Welfare in Developing Countries |
编辑 | John Cockburn,Jane Kabubo-Mariara |
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概述 | Co-published with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).Features contributions from local researchers in Africa and South America.One of few books to offer empirical analysis and measur |
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描述 | to establish impact, attributing observed changes in welfare to the intervention, while identifying key factors of success. Impact evaluations are aimed at providing feedback to help improve the design of programs and policies. They also provide greater accountability and a tool for dynamic learning, allowing policymakers to improve ongoing programs and ultimately better allocate funds across programs. Such a causal analysis is essential for understanding the relative role of alternative interventions in reducing poverty. The papers in this section again adopt a variety of techniques. The rst two impact evaluation studies employ propensity score matching to establish, ex-post, a valid control group to assess the impact on child schooling outcomes among b- e ciaries of various interventions in Kenya and Ethiopia. The third chapter c- ries out an ex-ante evaluation of alternative cash transfer programs on child school attendance in Uruguay. The nal paper further carries out in-depth macro-modeling and micro-regression analysis to simulate the impacts of the food crisis and various policy responses, including food subsidies and cash transfers, on various dimensions of child poverty in |
出版日期 | Book 2010 |
关键词 | Aging; Developing Countries; Poverty; Welfare; child labor; child mortality; child poverty; inequality; mult |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6275-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4899-9702-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-6275-1 |
copyright | Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network 2010 |