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Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Macours, Karen; Schady, Norbert; Vakis, Renos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. There is a large literature on the effects of these programs on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible impacts on child development. This paper analyzes the impact of a cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654790
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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy
Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320049
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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy
Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653197
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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper presents the evaluation of the Enterprise Restructuring Support Program in Argentina. The aim of the program … tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by … the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644852
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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper presents the evaluation of the Enterprise Restructuring Support Program in Argentina. The aim of the program … tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by … the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653454
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Does the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages?: The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries
Shinkai, Naoko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944237
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
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Quality Assurance and Large Scale Reform: Lessons for Chile
Hopkins, David - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This synthesis report begins with a brief overview of the education system in Chile and the expressed need for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198407
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Cash Transfers and Anemia Among Women of Reproductive Age
Schady, Norbert - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Iron deficiency anemia is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency in the world, affecting more than 2 billion people in developing countries. We show that a modest cash transfer substantially reduced anemia among women of reproductive age in rural Ecuador.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653877
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The Impact of Funding on Research Collaboration: Evidence from Argentina
Maffioli, Alessandro; Ubfal, Diego - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
in Argentina. We find a positive and significant impact of funding on collaboration, which is measured in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206037