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Relative to their counterparts in high-income regions, entrepreneurs in developing countries face less efficient financial markets, more volatile macroeconomic conditions, and higher entry costs. This paper develops a dynamic empirical model that links these features of the business environment...
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-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT treatment based on school attendance, a savings treatment that postpones a bulk …
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-evaluates the link between outpatient cost-sharing and health, studying Colombia's entire formal sector workforce observed monthly …. Because Colombia's national health system imposes discrete breaks in outpatient cost-sharing requirements across the earnings …
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The paper studies the impact of financial aid on long-term educational attainment and labor market outcomes in Colombia … partly by high-quality universities improving students' skills, as demonstrated by their performance on Colombia's college …
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Starting in 1985, Colombia experienced gradual trade liberalization that culminated in the drastic tariff reductions of … Colombia exhibit remarkably less persistence over time than U.S. wage premiums. Similarly, measures of trade protection are … - in contrast to the U.S. - sectors with high import penetration in Colombia pay higher wages; nevertheless, regressions …
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Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 pupils from poor neighborhoods with vouchers that covered approximately …
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This paper deals with some of the most important aspects of Latin America's experience with capital flows during the last twenty-five years. The paper begins with a historical analysis. I then deal with the sequencing of reform and discuss issues related to the relationship between capital...
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, Colombia and Mexico -- and three East Asian countries--Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It identifies a number of potential …
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Is there any empirical evidence that firms become more efficient after becoming exporters? Do firms that become exporters generate positive spillovers for domestically-oriented producers? In this paper we analyze the causal links between exporting and productivity using firm-level panel data...
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inflations in the 1980s. Several other countries, for example Colombia, have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods …
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