Browsing by Author "Palermo, Tia"
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Does Keeping Adolescent Girls in School Protect Against Sexual Violence? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from East and Southern Africa
Palermo, Tia; Mills, Michelle (UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2017)Sexual violence against women and girls is widespread globally. In their lifetime, one in three women will experience intimate partner physical or sexual violence and 7 per cent will experience forced sex by someone other ... -
Measurement of Interpersonal Violence in National Social Cash Transfer Evaluations
Palermo, Tia (UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2015)Over the past decade, more than a dozen government-run cash transfer programmes have been launched in sub-Saharan Africa as part of national social protection strategies. Recently there has been increased interest in ... -
Measuring Health and Well-being of Young People in the Transfer Project
Palermo, Tia (UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2015)During the past decade, over a dozen government-run cash transfer programmes have been launched in sub-Saharan Africa, and there is growing evidence of their ability to improve a range of development outcomes. Comparing ... -
The Zambian Government Unconditional Social CashTransfer Programme Does Not Increase Fertility
Hjelm, Lisa; Palermo, Tia (UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2016)This is the first study from sub-Saharan Africa examining the relation between cash transfers and fertility using a large-sample social experiment design and reporting fertility histories of individual women. The findings ... -
Unconditional Government Social Cash Transfers in Africa Do Not Increase Fertility : Issue Brief
Hjelm, Lisa; Palermo, Tia (UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2016)A common perception surrounding the design and implementation of social cash transfers is that those targeted to families with young children will incentivize families to have more children. To date, however, research on ...