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Do We Need More Women in Power? Gender, Public Policy, and Development in Bolivia

Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2014

This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...

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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes: Experimental evidence from Mexico

Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021

This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...

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An integrated analysis of the impact of gender diversity on innovation and productivity in manufacturing firms: Prepared for the institutions for development sector

Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2018

This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women's participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …

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Gender-based educational and occupational segregation in the Caribbean

Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018

This study analyzes the evolution of gender-based educational and occupational segregation, from 1999 to 2016, for four … segregation in explaining occupational segregation. There are four major findings. First, aggregate gender-based educational and …

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Boys' cognitive skill formation and physical growth: Long-term experimental evidence on critical ages for early childhood interventions

Barham, Tania; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A. - 2013

The effects of early life circumstances on cognitive skill formation are important for later human capital development … window for both cognitive skill formation and physical development by exploiting a randomized conditional cash transfer (CCT … positive impacts on cognitive development for children. The finding that the results differ for cognitive functioning and …

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Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Cooper, Ryan; … - 2014

This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal effects that upgrading slum dwellings has on the living conditions of the extremely poor. In particular, we study the impact of providing better houses in situ to slum dwellers in El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the...

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The Effect of In-Service Teacher Training on Student Learning of English as a Second Language

Bando Grana, Rosangela; Li, Xia - 2014

In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...

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The effects of weather shocks on early childhood development

Beuermann, Diether W.; Pecha, Camilo; Schmid, Juan Pedro - 2017

This study analyzes the effects of exposure to tropical storms and hurricanes during pregnancy on children's anthropometric measurements taken within the first five years of life. It combines destruction indexes at the district level with 13 yearly rounds of household level surveys from Jamaica....

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Does Access to Better Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Improve Child Outcomes? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Schady, Norbert - 2015

sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers …, rather than morbidity, nutritional status, and development. Also, it has generally not been possible to separately estimate …

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¿Ayudar a las familias a ayudarse a sí mismas? Efectos (in)deseados de un programa digital de crianza

Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Domínguez, Patricio; … - 2022

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