Sökning: "cash transfers"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 uppsatser innehållade orden cash transfers.

1. 1. Unconditional cash transfers to single mothers effective for child education? – Using a historical policy experiment

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Linnea Karlsson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Unconditional cash transfers; needs-based cash grants; welfare targeting; human capital development accumulation; skill formation technology; regression kink design;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I examine whether unconditional cash transfers to poor femaleheaded households have an effect on children’s educational attainment. Using a historical Swedish child allowance policy that targeted unconditional cash transfers to widow mothers with an income below a poverty threshold, I lay out a credible identification strategy, to test the hypothesis with a regression kink design. LÄS MER

3. 2. Economic determinants of OECD fertility rates : Evidence of the Easterlin hypothesis

   Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Nationalekonomi

   Författare :Nils Gyllow; [2023]
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   Sammanfattning : The Easterlin hypothesis of relative cohort sizes has previously been used to explain changes in the fertility rate in the mid-20th century. The hypothesis states that a small relative size of the young cohort to the old cohort increases the fertility rate, and a large relative size of the young cohort to the old cohort decreases the fertility rate. LÄS MER

4. 3. Policy measures to counter rising energy prices: In-kind transfers, cash transfers and VAT rate cuts

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Pierre Nilsson; [2022]
   Nyckelord :In-kind transfers; cash transfers; VAT; targeting; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : This paper examines literature on policies used to compensate households for rising energy costs, including in-kind transfers, cash transfers and VAT reductions. It also shows how targeted transfers stand against universal transfers, and how the policy measures affect energy consumption. LÄS MER

5. 4. Cash-based programming – a catalyst for change in humanitarian aid? Exploring cash-based programming’s effects on humanitarian aid, the humanitarian-development nexus & the localisation agenda

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

   Författare :Charles Drury; [2022]
   Nyckelord :aid; humanitarian; humanitarian aid; cash-based programming; cash transfers; humanitarian cash transfers; cash and voucher assistance; Nexus; HDP Nexus; localisation agenda; localization agenda; multi-year funding; anticipatory response; consortium; resilience; catalyse; facilitate; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent- and increasingly protracted, causing humanitarian actors to be under mounting pressure in their attempts to respond to the increasing amount of people in need. Among else, cash-based programming has been highlighted as part of the solution to this and has been rapidly on the rise as an aid modality among humanitarian actors in the past few years. LÄS MER

7. 5. Social Policy Assessment of the Gendered Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers in Argentina on Female Beneficiaries: A critical analysis of empowerment and emancipation.

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Författare :Madeleine Mae Belanger; [2022]
   Nyckelord :empowerment; emancipation; poverty; feminisation of obligation and responsibility; conditional cash transfers; Argentina; unfavourable inclusion; human capital; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Conditional cash transfers are a popular social policy across Latin America. Often focused on investments in early childhood education and care, the social policy requires conditionalities such as educational attainment and healthcare to achieve human capital development. LÄS MER