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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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Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?

Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...

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On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings

Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

I suggest the idea of a reporting function, r(.), from reality to feelings. The ‘happiness’ literature claims we have demonstrated diminishing marginal utility of income. I show not, and that knowing r(.)’s curvature is crucial. A quasi-experiment on heights is studied.

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On the Common Claim that Happiness Equations Demonstrate Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income

Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

It is commonly claimed in the recent happiness literature in psychology and economics that we have proved diminishing marginal utility of income. This paper suggests that we have not. It draws a distinction between concavity of the utility function and concavity of the reporting function.

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Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; Miaari, Sami H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...

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Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gaston - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking skills and Hebrew literacy are shown to increase with...

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