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"Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to...
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knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …
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in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care …: doubling household consumption increases the bribery probability by 0.2-0.4 percentage points in Peru, compared to a bribery … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …
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proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set …
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To assess the employment effects of labor costs it is crucial to have reliable estimates of the labor cost elasticity of labor demand. Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we estimate a long run unconditional labor demand function, exploiting information on workers to correct for endogeneity in...
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coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children's allocation …
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individual returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions …
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Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand. -- Matching ; employment ; labor demand estimation
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armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining …
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program, using data collected after 15 months of implementation in 319 primary schools in rural Peru. The results indicate …
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