Social Assistance and Informality: Examining the link in Colombia
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Keywords
informality; conditional cash transfers; evaluation;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2014-05-04 (Development)
- NEP-IUE-2014-05-04 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LAM-2014-05-04 (Central and South America)
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