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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty traps created by information problems and incorrect...
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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes : the case of teenage pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240855
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Transit migration and crime evidence from Colombia
Rey, Ramón; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2024
This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … of the Venezuela-Colombia border in 2016, which has led to a surge in transit migration, and geospatial information about … the distinct routes through which the migrants crossed Colombia. Employing a difference-in-differences approach and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477818
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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803539
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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...
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Nonparametric welfare analysis for discrete choice : levels and differences of individual and social welfare
Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals' preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
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Competitive devaluations in commodity-based economics : Colombia and the Pacific Alliance Group
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costamagna, Rodrigo; … - 2016
This paper investigates whether there is an S-Curve in Colombia using bilateral and disaggregated quarterly data for …
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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries : a simple analytical framework
Mejía, Daniel (contributor) - 2008
data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the … ; Plan Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790762
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A unified theory of firm selection and growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2009
This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of balanced growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements while there is continuous arrival of new potential producers. Firms can also...
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Unwilling to train? : firm responses to the Colombian apprenticeship regulation
Caicedo, Santiago; Espinosa, Miguel; Seibold, Arthur - 2020
We study firm responses to a large-scale change in apprenticeship regulation in Colombia. The reform requires firms to …
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