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Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
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Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …
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collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …
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the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …
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This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA … mechanisms, as the laws recently passed by the Colombian government, that avoid successful anti-poverty schemes from being …
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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …
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Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen …
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, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …
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We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and...
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We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …
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