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El presente documento investiga la movilidad social en Bolivia y discute sus implicancias para la reducción de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico de largo plazo. Regresiones en base a información de encuestas de hogares muestran que la movilidad social es muy baja en Bolivia, inclusive con...
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The economic literature that studies the salary gaps between men and women produced by children. However, there may … also be wage gaps between women with children and women without children, which is known as a motherhood wage penalty and … penalty and when correcting for selection bias it persists. When evaluating by number of children, it is observed that …
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This working paper explores the effect of joint labor decisions on the study of wage regression models. The estimation of Mincer equations suffers from numerous sources of bias, including the sample selection problem generated by the fact that the agent decision to work is not independent of the...
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There is an apparent consensus, at the level of public policies, about the empowering effect of working outside the home for women, thereby reducing the levels of violence against them. However, the empirical evidence on the female labor-violence relationship is inconsistent. In the face of this...
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There is a strong gap in school enrollment rates between young girls with and without children in Uruguay. This paper …
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Este artículo provee evidencia para Argentina acerca del impacto de extender la escolaridad obligatoria sobre la fecundidad adolescente. En el año 1993, el gobierno implementó una reforma educativa (Ley Federal de Educación) que, entre otras cosas, extendió los años de educación...
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En las ultimas décadas, los paises de America Latina experimentaron una reduccion en el numero de hijos promedio por hogar, lo cual no se dio en forma uniforme a lo largo de la distribucion del ingreso. Este trabajo busca cuantificar el impacto distributivo de los cambios en las decisiones de...
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