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The health of women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Levine, Ruth - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524137
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The Effects of AI on the Working Lives of Women
UNESCO; OECD; Inter-American Development Bank - 2022
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) examines the effects of AI on the working lives of women. This report describes … report highlights the need for more focus and research on the impacts of AI on women and the digital gender gap, in order to … ensure that women are not left behind in the future of work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013278716
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Female Bargaining Power and Parental Labour Supply
Novella, Rafael; Ripani, Laura; Cruces, Guillermo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Recent empirical evidence has indicated that Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) do not have an aggregate effect on adult labour supply, however little attention has been paid to the role of other intrahousehold dynamics. This paper examines how the bargaining power structure of households affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652837
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Las externalidades de los programas de transferencias condicionadas sobre el crimen: El caso de Familias en Acción en Bogotá
Camacho, Adriana; Mejía, Daniel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
En este trabajo estudiamos los efectos indirectos del mayor programa de transferencias condicionadas (PTC) de Colombia, Familias en Acción, sobre los niveles de criminalidad en el área urbana de la ciudad de Bogotá. Para realizar este estudio combinamos las siguientes dos fuentes de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653667
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Are Conditional Cash Transfers Associated with Lower Labor Supply?: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Over the Period 2000-2010
Bosch, Mariano; Stampini, Marco; Bedoya, Guadalupe - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper analyzes the correlation between the expansion of the Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer program Oportunidades and the evolution of the labor market over the period 2000-10. We find no evidence of perverse effects. Program expansion was not associated with drops in either labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653858
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How Much Are We Willing To Pay to Send Poor Adolescents to School? Simulating Changes to Mexico`s Oportunidades in Urban Areas
Bouillon, Cesar Patricio; Azevedo, Viviane; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
Although Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes in program design using a simple parametric method based on a simultaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979269
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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David E.; Ibarraran, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP’s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
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The Effects of Punishment of Crime in Colombia on Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Human Capital Formation
Guarin, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andres - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Using individual data on persons arrested in the Medellin Metropolitan Area, this paper assesses whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691620
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Re-estimating the Gender Gap in Colombian Academic Performance
Munoz, Juan Sebastian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
dropout rate overestimates male performance means, creating a selection bias in the regular OLS estimation. In order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731972
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Incentive Schemes in Export and Investment Promotions
Arozamena, Leandro; Weinschelbaum, Federico - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This study examines the use of incentive mechanisms for employees in export and investment promotion agencies intended to improve their performance. It briefly describes these organizations and presents the contributions from economic theory that are useful to understand the agency problems that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653496