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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Four Latin American countries

Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020

We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...

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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change

Pugatch, Todd - 2019

statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed …

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Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries

Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastian - 2024

This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel dataset that includes 50,000 triads of grandparents, parents, and children born between 1890 and...

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Women political leaders, corruption and learning : evidence from a large public program in India

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M. R. - 2013

We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...

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Neighborhood dynamics and the housing price effects of spatially targeted economic development policy

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2009

Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...

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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico

Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008

This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …

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Adding rungs to the exporting ladder : plant-level exporting dynamics and total factor productivity growth

Voicu, Alexandru (contributor) - 2008

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...