German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 6

24 May 2024, 09:00

Leibniz Universität Hannover

161. Delivering primary care to the homeless - Evidence from Brazil

Malte Becker

24/05/2024, 09:00

Education and Health

Parallel Session

In this paper, I study the effect of Mobile Street Clinics on health care utilization and social assistance uptake among the homeless in Brazil. I exploit the staggered introduction of Mobile Street Clinics across different municipalities in a difference-in-differences setting, comparing never- or later-treated to earlier-treated municipalities. I find that the opening of a Mobile Street...

200. The impact of social health protection on migration: Evidence from Pakistan

Andreas Landmann (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

24/05/2024, 09:30

Migration Economics

Parallel Session

We study the impact of social health protection on the decision to migrate by exploiting the Social Health Protection Initiative (SHPI), introduced gradually after 2015 in selected districts of Pakistan. We exploit the imperfect rollout of the program and evaluate the impact of the program on both international and inter-district out-migration.
Employing the difference-in-difference method...

129. The effects of social pensions on monetary and time transfers among the poor: Evidence from Peru

Javier Olivera (NBB, PUCP, LISER)

24/05/2024, 10:00

Impact Evaluation

Parallel Session

We study the effects of Peru's social pension program Pension 65 on family transfers of money and time. The program provides pensions to individuals aged 65 and over who are officially classified as extreme poor and who do not have other pensions. We use survey data matched to program's administrative registers and exploit the discontinuity around the welfare index that determines eligibility...