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Making Brazilians Safer : Aanalyzing the Dynamics of Violent Crime
World Bank - 2013
. Chapter four presents findings on the impact of school enrollment on youth crime and violence prevention. The last section …This report analyzes the dynamics of violent crime in Brazil. What factors are driving the overall crime decline in … Brazil? Why is violent crime declining in some states while it is increasing in others? What types of interventions could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558057
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Families, schools, and primary-school learning : evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective
Woffmann, Ludger - 2005
primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database …,300 students in Argentina and 5,131 students in Colombia. The emerging general pattern of results is that educational performance …, and relatively small in Colombia. A specific Argentine feature is the lack of performance differences between rural and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522662
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Causes and consequences of civil strife : micro-level evidence from Uganda
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523390
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Crime and Violence in Central America : A Development Challenge - Main Report
World Bank - 2012
Crime and violence are now a key development issue for Central American countries. In three nations El Salvador …, Guatemala, and Honduras crime rates are among the top five in Latin America. This report argues that successful strategies … future options. In addition, the design of national crime reduction plans and the establishment of national cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550541
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Crime and Violence in Central America : A Development Challenge - Executive Summary
World Bank - 2012
Crime and violence are now a key development issue for Central American countries. In three nations El Salvador …, Guatemala, and Honduras crime rates are among the top five in Latin America. This report argues that successful strategies … future options. In addition, the design of national crime reduction plans and the establishment of national cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550757
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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009
"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394156
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child health and education. One hypothesis for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394183
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Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance : impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009
"This paper examines the impacts of natural disasters on schooling investments with special focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and the likelihood of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394203
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel - 2009
"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394219
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment
Macours, Karen - 2008
"A variety of theories of skill formation suggest that investments in schooling and other dimensions of human capital will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521000