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Feeding the world's growing population is one of the most critical policy challenges for the 21st century. With tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most promising path meet the nutrient needs for future...
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This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …
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policy change in Ecuador that abruptly reversed course for reproductive health services for adolescent women in 2014. In a … difference-in-differences analysis of age-specific birth rates in Ecuador's 221 cantons, we find that the abrupt policy change …
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unique administrative data from Ecuador, our approach yields measures of individual-level exposure to exports and imports …. We find that international trade raises earnings inequality in Ecuador, especially in the upper-half of the income … distribution. However, the drop in inequality experienced by Ecuador over the last decade would have been less pronounced in the …
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Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly …
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sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …
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Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …
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Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities, but these devices may also pose as distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This...
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