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Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty

Bacarreza, Canavire; Javier, Gustavo; Hanauer, Merlin M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …

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Culture and Human Capital Investments: Evidence of an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …

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Information Technologies and Provision of National Identification Cards by the Bolivian Police: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Field Experiments

Chong, Alberto; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...

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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …

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Domestic Violence and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Mixed-Race Developing Country

Bacarreza, Canavire; Javier, Gustavo; Rios Avila, Fernando - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia “excels” in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the …

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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach

Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’s underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended by Lyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic...

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Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?

Aziz, Mehnaz; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Jimenez, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of...

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

May, Nils G.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally-accruing economic payoffs, but also by other factors such...

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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to determine their quantitative importance and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a...

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