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We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers,...
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. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using random-assignment data from the Red de Proteccion Social in rural Nicaragua …. -- Nicaragua ; conditional cash transfers ; quantile treatment effect …
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developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another developing country, Costa Rica. We find little evidence to support …
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known form of variance I test the findings of the theoretical model with data from Nicaragua. Evidence suggests that … migrants from Nicaragua remit for altruistic reasons. Moreover some gender heterogeneity seems to exist in the remitting … behavior. -- Remittances ; censored regression ; altruism ; Central America ; Nicaragua …
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In this paper I use a unique data set from Nicaragua to asses the behavior of persons who send money back home. I … ; remittances ; censored regression ; decision making ; Central America ; Nicaragua …
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market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and …
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distributions of income in Latin America. At the other extreme, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua were among the most unequal … inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua decreased while inequality in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras increased. By 2009 … levels of inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua were similar to those in Costa Rica. In this paper, we examine why income …
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innovative procedure and we show its implementation by analysing the determinants of consumption in Nicaragua, based on data from …-panel ; consumption model ; Nicaragua …
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Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
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providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary …
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