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Information, Externalities and Socioeconomics of Malaria in Honduras: A Preliminary Analysis
Aviles, Maria Victoria; Cuesta, Jose - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper explores how different levels of knowledge correlate with desirable preventive and curative practices against malaria in Honduras. The paper additionally analyzes “information externalities” associated with non-specific malaria health services, communicational campaigns and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528938
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Access, equity and performance: Education in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago
Tsang, Mun C.; Fryer, Michelle; Arevalo, Gregorio - Inter-American Development Bank
-educated workforce with more employable skills. This book examines policy and public financing strategies for education in Barbados … strategic issues related to education financing and development performance. Based on an extensive review of sector and country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943615
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The Effect of Conditional Transfers on School Performance and Child Labor: Evidence from an Ex-Post Impact Evaluation in Costa Rica
Duryea, Suzanne; Morrison, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
This study examines the impact of Superémonos, a conditional transfer program in Costa Rica, which provides poor families with a subsidy for the purchase of food conditional upon children regularly attending school. Using three different empirical techniques -simple comparison of mean outcomes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943635
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Access, equity and performance: Education in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago
Tsang, Mun C.; Fryer, Michelle; Arevalo, Gregorio - Inter-American Development Bank
-educated workforce with more employable skills. This book examines policy and public financing strategies for education in Barbados … strategic issues related to education financing and development performance. Based on an extensive review of sector and country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772527
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Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime; Molinas, José R.; Barros, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943406
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Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime; Molinas, José R.; Barros, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772354
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A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life
Lora, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper proposes a methodology to resolve the problems that result from using a combination of objective and subjective information in evaluating urban quality of life. The paper further suggests techniques to identify and rank issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386048
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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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Crime, Punishment, and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Colombian Adolescents
Ibanez, Ana Maria; Rodriguez, Catherine; Zarruk, David - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper uses a natural policy experiment to estimate how changes in the costs of engaging in criminal activity may influence adolescents' decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691622
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Decentralization and Accountability: The Curse of Local Underdevelopment
Machado, Fabiana V - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
, low levels of education, and inequality may lead to low accountability and higher susceptibility to political capture … education is provided by schools under municipal as well as under state management. The performance of these two types of school … municipalities where inequality is higher and education and political participation are lower. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662977