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Estimating the associations between SNAP and food insecurity, obesity, and food purchases with imperfect administrative measures of participation

Courtemanche, Charles; Denteh, Augustine; Tchernis, Rusty - 2018

Administrative data are considered the "gold standard" when measuring program participation, but little evidence exists on the potential problems with administrative records or their implications for econometric estimates. We explore issues with administrative data using the FoodAPS, a unique...

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Weight gains from trade in foods : evidence from Mexico

Giuntella, Osea; Rieger, Matthias; Rotunno, Lorenzo - 2019

In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food imports from the U.S. can explain up to twenty percent of the...

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Bombing and the two Vietnams

Vuong, Vu; Chang, Simon; Palmer, Michael - 2021

The Vietnam War occurred when Vietnam was divided into two states with contrasting institutions. North Vietnam was characterized by a command economy under a stable political regime, whereas South Vietnam experienced a market economy and prolonged political instability. This paper uses this...

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Income inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador : different reasons

Aristizábal-Ramirez, Maria; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2015

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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Two stories of wage dynamics in Latin America : different policies, different outcomes

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Carvajal-Osorio, Luis C. - 2018

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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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019

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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Unions, wage gaps, and wage dispersion : new evidence from the Americas

Rios-Avila, Fernando; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012

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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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects : evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012

-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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Estimating the impacts of Bolivia's protected areas on poverty

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Hanauer, Merlin M. - 2012

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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Information technologies and provision of national identification cards by the Bolivian Police : evidence from two randomized natural field experiments

Chong, Alberto; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; … - 2014

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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