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The aim of this paper is to estimate differences in educational deprivation between boys and girls, beneficiaries and non beneficiaries, of the program Universal Child Allowance. This study uses data from the National Survey of Social Protection (ENAPROSS Spanish acronym) that identifies recipients directly, to assess the impact over educational deprivation indicators and over a summary indicator of these deprivations. Results reveal strong gender disparities in educational deprivation confirming some previous inquiries results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the meanings linked to the use of money by recipients in Buenos Aires' Conditional Income Transfer Programmes (PTCI). It does so from the standpoint of the technical staff designing and implementing PTCI. To this end, we conducted in-depth interviews with the technical staff from the two largest PTCIs in Buenos Aires (Programa Ciudadanía Porteña (CP); Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH)). We analyse the benefits attributed to banking access, worries about making transfers, and the notion of money as a standard way of fixing social problems. We conclude by considering the compensatory nature of the measures taken, and the ways in which fear and mistrust make the 'personal' sphere a favourite target for social policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, a field of study linked to "anti-poverty programs" was consolidated, which contributed not only to recognize the factual phenomenon of the emergence of this social policy variant, but also constituted a benchmark that allowed analyzing other issues linked: the State, the territory, old and new actors involved. The intervention devices changed as the way to study them. Faced with the loss of sensitivity of the categories, the indicators and concepts traditionally used to capture and understand phenomena linked to the implementation of assistance programs at the local level, their networks and their effects, other analytical tools were deployed to understand new logics and new social actors, their practices and subjectivities. From the review of a broad bibliographic corpus and other documentary sources, the work relates those transformations and processes that happened simultaneously, mainly in the academic field (universities, study centers) and in other social spaces. It analyzes how various processes--somehow convergent--impacted on the revision of the research agendas on "anti-poverty programs" and at the same time contributed to the debates on the forms that should be given to these interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to analyze Universal Child Allowance (UCA)--a large-scale conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in Argentina--from a human rights and constitutional perspective. Conditions required in the UCA system--which covers informal and unemployed workers--are compared to those established in family allowances, the contributory program created for registered workers. These differences in treatment are analyzed in connection with the right to equal treatment, taking into account applicable legal materials, including caselaw and theoretical contributions. After describing CCT programs in general and the specific features of UCA, and outlining Argentina's constitutional and human rights framework, the article describes the specific conditions--maximum income, nationality, maximum number of covered children--applied only to informal and unregistered workers included in the UCA program. Compared to family allowances beneficiaries, workers under UCA have a much lower maximum wage limit to be eligible, and their children must fulfill nationality or legal residence requirements not applicable under the family allowances system. UCA covers only up to five children per family, while family allowances are paid to every child in formal workers' families, with no restrictions. The article concludes that these planned differences in treatment are not admissible under Argentina's human rights obligations and constitutional setting. The article also advocates a human rights-based design for social policies, in order to ensure consistency with Argentina's Constitution and international obligations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluative analysis of mechanisms of certification of the conditionalities in education and health. The Universal Child Allowance for Social Protection form Argentina. The Universal Child Allowance is the most important non-contributory social policy that transfers cash to children considered to be "vulnerable" in Argentina. This paper aims to analyze how the mechanisms of certification of the conditionalities in education and health work so as to evaluate it, since 600 thousand children are suspended each year because they do not prove the conditionalities. This research was triggered by a World Bank loan for 600 million dollars launched in 2016, one of whose objectives is to revise these mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper empirically explores the effect of the Universal Child Allowance -a conditional Cash Transfer Program recently launched in Argentina- on backwardness in school. Specifically, we evaluate whether children enrolled in the program closed their education gap, differentiating between children and adolescents. Using propensity score as a prelude to the estimation of regression, we found preliminary evidence that the government subsidy affects primary and secondary students differently. The results are robust to different uses of the different samples and comparison samples observation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes changes and continuities in the determinants and in behavior patterns of a group of beneficiary mothers of the Asignación Universal por Hijo, after starting to apperceive this conditional cash transfer policy. The research is located in the municipality of La Matanza and combines two methodological strategies: an assessment of the socio-territorial structure, and a qualitative study based on a purposive sample consisting of 66 semi-structured interviews of the AUH beneficiary households in four township slums. This methodology linked individual behavior as an expression of typical options and crossroads where percipient mothers are embedded. The paper discusses the effect of this policy on the economic participation of women and over what dimensions this transfer helps to expand the horizon of choices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]