Search for dissertations about: "cash transfers"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words cash transfers.
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6. The promise of payday: exploring the role of state cash transfers in post-apartheid rural South Africa
Abstract : During the last two decades, cash transfer programs have become a significant tool across low and middle-income countries in efforts to reduce poverty. However, there is a paucity of studies on beneficiaries’ own perspectives and lived experiences of cash transfers as well as potential long-term productive effects on livelihoods. READ MORE
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7. Essays in Development and Labor Economics
Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. Essay I. This essay uses time-series of rainfall to estimate the response of body weight to transitory changes in household income in rural Tanzania. The response is positive on average, but is markedly higher among female children. READ MORE
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8. Empirical Essays on Public Policies : Social Insurances, Safety Nets, and Health Care
Abstract : Screening Efficiency in Sickness Insurance: Evidence from a Spell Limit ReformI estimate the effects of the removal of a limit on sick leave spells in the Swedish Sickness Insurance program, on labor market outcomes and sick leave. The removal of the spell limit led to longer sick leave spells. READ MORE
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9. Social Policy in Development Contexts : Drivers, Mechanisms and Outcomes
Abstract : Economic growth amidst staggering inequality in many low- and middle-income countries makes the quest to end global poverty more topical than ever. Calls to leave no one behind in the course of development underscore the need to reconsider the role of policy frameworks in emerging economies. READ MORE
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10. Trading in sexual currency: Transactional sex, sexual coercion and sexual behaviours among young people in Uganda
Abstract : The growing incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among young people, particularly HIV, is a public health concern in Uganda. There is increasing evidence that Ugandan youth engage in risky sexual behaviors, transactional sex, and experience sexual coercion. READ MORE