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The Under-Registration of Births in Latin America
Duryea, Suzanne - 2011
Approximately 14 percent of births are unregistered in Latin America according to estimates by UNICEF (2001). Children who lack an official birth certificate can be denied access to social services, including enrolling in school and accessing health services. This paper examines the...
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Teenage Childbearing in Latin American Countries
Núñez, Jairo - 2011
In spite of the rapid fertility transition experienced by most Latin American and Caribbean countries, teenage … fertility has not changed at the same pace or in the same direction. Given that early childbearing is deleterious for both … second half of the 1990s: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Peru. Teenage fertility trends …
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What Drives Differences in Inequality Across Countries?
Székely, Miguel - 2011
fertility, mating, labor force participation, and household structure, while at the same time including information on the …
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Decomposing Fertility Differences Across World Regions and Over Time : Is Improved Health More Important than Women's Schooling?
Duryea, Suzanne - 2011
economic outcomes. These shifts are triggered by changes in fertility and mortality that take place some years before becoming … countries in the world are still experiencing, or probably about to experience, fertility declines. This paper first … characterizes differences in fertility and mortality and in related dependency ratios across regions and over time. The paper then …
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Latin American Middle Classes : The Distance between Perception and Reality
Lora, Eduardo A. - 2020
The main contribution of this paper with respect to previous work is the use of data on subjective perceptions to identify the Latin American middle classes. This paper provides a set of comparisons between objective and subjective definitions of middle-class using data from the 2007 World...
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Saving Rates in Latin America : A Neoclassical Perspective
Fernàndez, Andrés - 2018
Latin American countries have long exhibited low levels of saving rates when compared to other countries in relatively similar stages of economic development (e.g., Asian economies). Motivated by this fact, this paper examines the time path of the saving rates between 1970 and 2010 in three...
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Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
Fernandez, Manuel - 2018
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...
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Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
Gambetti, Luca - 2017
This paper examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies (Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period characterized by high inflation. As...
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Gone with the Wind : Demographic Transitions and Domestic Saving
Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2017
This study explores the relationship between demographic factors and saving rates using a panel dataset covering 110 countries between 1963 and 2012. In line with predictions from theory, this paper finds that lower dependency rates and greater longevity increase domestic saving rates. However,...
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The Productivity Gap in Latin America : Lessons from 50 Years of Development
Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - 2017
This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production as engines of growth in Latin America. Using the new, drastically revised Penn World Table (PWT) and Barro-Lee datasets,...
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