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Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001

This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on … recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities … carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It includes a general framework for poverty reduction in Latin America and …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Some Causes and Policy Implications

Castañeda, Tarsicio; Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

intergenerational transmission of poverty in Latin America, drawing on a review of recent studies and empirical work done for this study …

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Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001

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Returns to Private Education in Peru

Ñopo, Hugo; Calónico, Sebastián - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment of the...

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A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching

Heinrich, Carolyn; Maffioli, Alessandro; Vázquez, Gonzalo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This document provides a guide to the key aspects of implementing Propensity-Score Matching (PSM) methodology. It summarizes the basic conditions under which PSM can be used to estimate the impact of a program and the data required, presenting examples of PSM applications. It explains how the...

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The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean

Duryea, Suzanne; Ñopo, Hugo; Galiani, Sebastián; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender differences in school attendance and attainment in Latin America and the Caribbean, for both adults who left the educational system and children in school. For individuals 21 years old and above the paper uses a cohort analysis of school attainment....

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The Education Sector in the Dominican Republic: Overachievements and Underperformance

Ripani, Laura; Regalia, Ferdinando; Álvarez, Carola - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This study analyzes the challenges the Dominican Republic faces to increase educational levels, particularly of the poor, making the case that, in the regional context, the Dominican Republic educational system is simultaneously an overachiever in education enrollment and an underperformer in...

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Social Exclusion in Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

Marshall, Jeffery H.; Calderón, Valentina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of social exclusion in education in the region. Drawing from the micro-data of household surveys,...

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Ethnicity and Human Capital Accumulation in Urban Mexico

Ñopo, Hugo; Winder, Natalia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This study analyzes social mobility and human capital accumulation among ethnic minorities in Mexican urban areas, exploring changes in educational attainment and labor market status and using panel data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MFxLS). The results indicate important ethnic...

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Quake'n and Shake'n...Forever! Long-Run Effects of Natural Disasters: A Case Study on the 1970 Ancash Earthquake

Miller, Sebastian; Caruso, Germán - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This study estimates the effects of the 1970 Ancash earthquake on human capital accumulation on the affected and subsequent generation, 37 years after the shock, using the Peruvian censuses of 1993 and 2007. The main finding is that males affected by the earthquake in utero completed on average...

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