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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …-indigenous families follow decision rules more closely related to collective and bargaining behavior models. -- Bolivia ; culture …
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countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage …
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country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia "excels" in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the … endogeneity problems. -- labor markets ; domestic violence ; Bolivia ; indigenous …
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-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting … delivery outcomes. -- Bolivia ; transparency ; accountability ; local-level monitoring ; bureaucratic delay …
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proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
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This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … educational attainment to form part of one's own responsibility the Colombian income distribution appears more equal than Bolivia … Ecuador, and a mere 2.4 percent in Bolivia. Our findings show that the sources of income inequality can differ substantially …
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This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...
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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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middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
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This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia … suggest that Bolivia, which has implemented left-wing economic policies, has experienced a general increase in wages …
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