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At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary … inequality following the trend of Latin America. The analysis of the evolution of the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Index (NBI) also …
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employment and distinct aspects of the wage distribution - wage levels, wage gaps, and poverty and inequality indicators - with … wages of more educated workers declined, bringing forth reductions in poverty and inequality. Second, I build a model that … percent of the occupational downgrading and around 80 percent of the changes in wage levels, inequality, and poverty during …
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We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …
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The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other … results to impute income in the MECOVI 2007 survey. In this way, we calculate various measures of poverty and indigence, and … poverty and indigence in Bolivia, however this effect is small. The most important results are evident in the headcount index …
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Reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes are scarce. We exploit the manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug-related homicides on house prices. We use an unusually rich...
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A fundamental question in economics is whether happiness increases pari passu with improvements in material conditions or whether humans grow accustomed to better conditions over time. We rely on a large-scale experiment to examine what kind of impact the provision of housing to extremely poor...
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, participation, occupational segregation and labor income, over monetary poverty in urban Bolivia. For this purpose, it is proposed … comparison of poverty indicators observed and simulated with this strategy, it is evident that from 2006 to 2015 gender … inequality in participation and labor income implied costs on the welfare of the society. …
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