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Human capital investment and long-term poverty reduction in rural Mexico
Winters, Paul; Chiodi, Vera - HAL - 2008
By focusing on human capital investment, the Mexican Oportunidades program will influence the economic choices of the rural poor. To understand how beneficiaries may alter their behavior as a result of this intervention, this paper uses administrative data to analyze the economic activities of...
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Policy Evaluation in the Presence of Spatial Externalities: Reassessing the Progresa Program
Bobba, Matteo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014
This paper considers whether and how the evaluation results of a large-scale social policy in rural Mexico are sensitive to the local concentration of program beneficiaries. Combining evaluation survey data with geo-referenced information on the areas covered by the intervention, we find...
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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living
Cuffe, Harold E.; Harbaugh, William T.; Lindo, Jason M.; … - HAL - 2011
We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401099
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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children: Full information versus limited information model
Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jack - HAL - 2013
We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755510
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Social preferences and lying aversion in children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014
of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more selfjustification to lie. …
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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children: Full information versus limited information model
Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jack - HAL - 2013
We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784100
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El cooperativismo como nueva forma de integración: ALBA-Energía
Soto, Dani José Villalobos; Oliveira, María Fátima … - HAL - 2013
Desestabilización y la dificultad para cumplir con la cuota de suministro de petróleo en los países de América latina y del Caribe han generado en estas economías evidentes y consuetudinarias crisis económicas que difícilmente enfrentan. Sin embargo, estos países están en la búsqueda...
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La cooperación Sur-Sur en Latinoamérica: reconfiguraciones de la arquitectura de la ayuda
Pino, Bruno Ayllón - HAL - 2013
En la última década, la cooperación para el desarrollo registra la participación de los "emergentes" y otros países de renta media que asumen nuevos compromisos derivados de su creciente protagonismo internacional. Estos agentes dinamizadores de la distribución del poder convierten los...
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Trade and investment in Latin America and Asia : Potential perspectives from further integration
Bouet, Antoine; Berisha-Krasniqui, Valdete; Estrades, Carmen - HAL - 2011
Recently, Asian and Latin American countries have been involved in a series of negotiations to liberalize trade and investment flows. This paper analyzes the potential impact of a Free Trade Agreement between countries of both regions, applying a world dynamic general equilibrium model (MIRAGE)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821434
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Regional currencies and regional monetary zones in Latin America : what prospects ?
Ponsot, Jean-François; Gnos, Claude - HAL - 2009
This paper aims at drawing lessons from Keynes's plan presented at the Bretton Woods conference, in order to help improving current regional monetary agreements in Latin America. Some promoters of the Bank of the South and the New Financial Architecture in Latin America are proposing to...
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