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Adapting to Climate Change: Long-Term Effects of Drought on Local Labor Markets
Bastos, Paulo; Busso, Matias; Miller, Sebastian - 2013
We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in conjunction with five waves of population census data...
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Local education spending and migration: Evidence from a large redistribution program
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2024
This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and … redistributed public education finance across Brazilian municipalities in the late 1990s, as a source of exogenous variation. Using … a cohort-exposure design, I find that, at the individual level, doubling the program-related public education budget led …
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Attitudes towards migrants during crisis times
Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021
How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604893
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Improving early childhood development outcomes in times of COVID-19: Experimental evidence on parental networks and SMS messages
Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; Namen, Olga; … - 2022
This paper describes a policy experiment implemented in Costa Rica to increase learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518252
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Tailoring instruction to improve mathematics skills in preschools: A randomized evaluation
Gallego, Francisco A.; Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Alfonso, … - 2018
Tailoring instruction to each student's needs can produce significant learning gains. However, few programs have successfully implemented this approach. In this paper, we present the results of a randomized evaluation of a program that uses an inquiry with an individualized scaffolding approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141926
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Inquiry and problem based pedagogy: Evidence from 10 field experiments
Bando Grana, Rosangela; Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Gertler, … - 2018
We analyze evidence from 10 at-scale field experiments in four countries on the effect of inquiry- and problem-based pedagogy (IPP) on students' math and science test scores. IPP creates active problem solving opportunities in settings that derive meaning to the child. Students learn by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141959
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Argentina`s Housing Market in the 2000s
Cristini, Marcela; Moya, Ramiro; Bermudez, Guillermo - 2011
In the last three decades, the supply of housing in Argentina has not kept pace with demand. This study analyzes the main drivers of Argentina's housing market and relates them to the macroeconomic environment in order to advance a policy agenda for housing policy reform. The demand for housing...
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Tacit Collusion in the Santiago Housing Market
Lefort, Fernando; Vargas, Miguel - 2011
Given the numerous and widely acknowledged benefits of a well-functioning housing market, it is vital to understand the degree of competition in that market, which is the starting point for undertaking any policy tool aimed at improving its efficiency. This paper tests the extent of competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328135
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The Impact of the Sense of Security from Crime on Residential Property Values in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas
Vetter, David M.; Beltrão, Kaizô I.; Massena, Rosa M. R. - 2013
Using a hedonic residential rent model for Brazil's metropolitan areas calibrated with microdata from Brazil's annual household survey, this study estimates that increasing the sense of security in the home by one standard deviation would increase average home values by R$1,513 (US$757), or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328217
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Rural-urban migration at high urbanization levels
Busso, Matias; Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Herrera L., Nicolás - 2020
but no high school education, and those relationships are more frequently found under certain conditions: when cities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604851