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Discrimination in the Provision of Social Services to the Poor: A Field Experimental Study
Cárdenas, Juan Camilo; Candelo, Natalia; Gaviria, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper uses an experimental field approach to investigate the pro-social preferences and behavior of social services providers and the behavior of potential beneficiaries in Bogota, Colombia. Field experiments were conducted using games including a newly designed Distributive Dictator Game...
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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...
Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
discrimination at the higher salary jobs at any given skill level. The authors also find that returns to education vary significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944185
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Discrimination and Social Networks: Popularity among High School Students in Argentina
Elías, Julio; Elías, Víctor; Ronconi, Lucas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The objective of this paper is to better understand peer popularity during adolescence and detect discrimination. The … in some specifications. The findings are informative about discrimination in the school system. In particular, it appears …
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Is There Labor Market Discrimination among Professionals in Chile?: Lawyers, Doctors and Businesspeople
Bravo, David; Sanhueza, Claudia; Urzúa, Sergio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper analyzes gender differences in three Chilean professional labor markets, business, law and medicine, utilizing a new and rich data set collected for this purpose. The results show that differences in wages attributed to gender are only present in the legal profession. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944442
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Gender Gaps in Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States: The Impact of Employers` Prejudice
Flabbi, Luca; Tejada, Mauricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...
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'Lady Leaders': The Case of Quotas for Women's Representation in Argentina
Aggio, Carlos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
Argentina has taken steps to increase women's participation in politics. In 1991, it established that 30% of the candidate list for the Chamber of Deputies had to be women. As a consequence of the measure, the percentage of women deputies has increased from 5.44% in 1991/93 to 27% in 1995/97. At...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352040
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Stigma, Discrimination, and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
Aggleton, Peter; Parker, Richard; Maluwa, Miriam - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
discrimination and its impact on the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS programs. It presents a conceptual framework that explains the … interplay between stigma, discrimination and human rights. The study also provides guidelines for developing programmatic … activities that situate HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination within the broader social context where a variety of stigmas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352049
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A New Context for Teachers in Latin America and the Caribbean
Bos, María Soledad; Cabrol, Marcelo; Rondón, Carlos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
School attendance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased exponentially in the last two decades, almost every child goes to primary school and access to preschool and high school is fast catching up. This increase in access has been mostly led by more attendance to school of...
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Equidad: Volume 3 : No. 1 : March, 2002 Title: Equidad: Volumen 3 : No. 1 : Marzo, 2002
Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano …; … - 2002
Este quinto número de Equidad hace referencia a las redes de protección social en los países andinos; a cómo mejorar las herramientas de conocimiento para la reducción de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico; y a los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio en América Latina y el Caribe....
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Definitions Matter: Measuring Gender Gaps in Firms' Access to Credit
Piras, Claudia; Presbitero, Andrea; Rabellotti, Roberta - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
evidence presented herein suggests that this gender gap may be driven by taste-based discrimination. This paper exploits a rich …
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