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The Family in Flux: Household Decision-Making in Latin America
Duryea, Suzanne; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view with an aggregate approach, this volume uncovers clues to declining fertility, skyrocketing female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943383
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Portrait of the Poor: An Assets-Based Approach
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; Gray-Molina, George - Inter-American Development Bank
caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors … analyze the ownership and use of income-generating assets, as well as access to them. Where there are market imperfections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943569
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Wage Shocks and Consumption Variability in Mexico during the 1990s
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper presents evidence on the relationship between economic shocks to relative male wages and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s, which is a period characterized by high volatility. In addition to performing this type of analysis for Mexico for the first time, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943675
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Household Savings and Income Distribution in Mexico
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7 percent to 19.8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external saving from 6.9 to 0.5 percent between 1994 and 1995. The overall reduction was not more dramatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943745
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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944347
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The Impact of Public and Private Job Training in Colombia
Medina, Carlos; Núñez, Jairo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
In this working paper, the authors present various matching estimators of the impact on earnings for individuals who attended public and private job training programs in Colombia, namely the National Learning Service (SENA). The authors estimate propensity scores by controlling for the wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944517
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A Dynamic Analysis of Household Decision-Making in Urban Colombia, 1976-1998: Changes in Household Structure, Human Capital and its Returns, and Female Labor Force Participation
Torres, Fabio Sánchez; Núñez, Jairo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
. With such information a database of more than 6 million observations (workers, parents, children, etc.) was constructed …. The research results show that the number of children of the younger parents has drastically decreased. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944586
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Portrait of the Poor: An Assets-Based Approach
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; Gray-Molina, George - Inter-American Development Bank
caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors … analyze the ownership and use of income-generating assets, as well as access to them. Where there are market imperfections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772491
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The Family in Flux: Household Decision-Making in Latin America
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; Behrman, Jere R.; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view with an aggregate approach, this volume uncovers clues to declining fertility, skyrocketing female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895452