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Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide income to the poor in an effort to improve current welfare and promote investment in human and social capital to prevent future deprivation. So far, the impact evaluation literature has focused on estimating current effects on outcomes such as school...
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Este trabajo realiza un estudio comparativo del impacto de las remesas y la migración internacional sobre la pobreza y la desigualdad en cuatro países latinoamericanos con importantes procesos migratorios (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua). A partir de encuestas de hogares se estiman...
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En este trabajo utilizamos los más recientes métodos de regresión no condicionada por cuantiles (RNCQ) para estudiar los efectos distributivos de la educación en Argentina. Los métodos estándar se centran, por lo general, en efectos promedio o estudian los efectos distributivos ya sea...
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This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American … and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrollment, wage skill … terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution. In …
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primary and secondary education, and to some services (water, sanitation, electricity, cell phones). However, there is an … increasing gap between the rich and the poor in the access to tertiary education, and important differences in the access to new …
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education participation in educational programs in order to asses the effect of education on such measures of conflict. Applying …
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This paper examines the argument for public provision of certain private goods, like education and health, based on … distribution of these goods. A given quality of education or health services can be consumed for free in the public sector, but …
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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina’s income distribution:...
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a small poverty-reducing effect of several potential scenarios, including education upgrading, sectoral transformations …, labor informality reduction, gender and race wage gap closing, and changes in the structure of the returns to education …
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