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A new framework for the analysis of inequality
Cunha, Flávio (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2007
"This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003433324
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Political change and informality : evidence from the arab spring
Elsayed, Ahmed; Wahba, Jackline - 2017
This paper examines informality during the political and economic turmoil that accompanied the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt. The paper focuses on unprotected employment and the extent to which it changed by educational level right after the January Uprising of 2011. We find that over time and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785633
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War and endogenous democracy
Ticchi, Davide (contributor); Vindigni, Andrea (contributor) - 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688773
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How corruption hits people when they are down
Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2006
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359285
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement : evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975622
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Bribery in health care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590539
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a continuum of comparison groups
Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007
proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591487
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Employment and deadweight loss effects of observed non-wage labor costs
Aguilar, Giovanna (contributor);  … - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607700
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Child labor and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru
Dammert, Ana C. (contributor) - 2007
coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children's allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609616
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Returns to private education in Peru
Calónico, Sebastián (contributor); Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007
individual returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578427