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In this paper, we examine the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on learning-by-doing. We exploit personnel data on fruit pickers paid under two distinct compensation contracts: a standard piece rate plan and a piece rate plan with an extra one-time bonus tied to output. Under the bonus...
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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This paper extends the Baltagi et al. (2018, 2021) static and dynamic ?-contamination papers to dynamic space-time models. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible misspecification of the prior distribution. The proposed robust Bayesian approach departs from the...
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In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national …
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This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We …
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Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …
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This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 …'s or Ecuador's. In 2010, educational achievement explains over 10.9 percent of the Gini score in Colombia, 6.3 percent in … Ecuador, and a mere 2.4 percent in Bolivia. Our findings show that the sources of income inequality can differ substantially …
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administrative data on the universe of taxpayers in Ecuador and the introduction of generous tax deduction policies. Key to the …
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Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of …
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