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Cash, Conditions and Child Development : Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras
López Bóo, Florencia - 2019
We explore the effects of a randomly assigned conditional cash transfer in Honduras (Bono 10000) on early childhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870462
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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316940
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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
increases in Honduras reduce extreme poverty, with an elasticity of -0.18, and all poverty, with an elasticity of -0.10 (using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317292
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Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment : Evidence from Rural El Salvador
Halliday, Timothy - 2010
We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144088
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Women in Paid Employment : A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala
Almeida, Rita; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022
With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083906
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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala
Baez, Javier - 2015
strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative … seen in urban Guatemala between 2006 and 2011, which national authorities and analysts previously attributed solely to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029124
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Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?
Bollinger, Christopher R. - 2010
Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March … survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135391
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Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions
Kleinjans, Kristin J. - 2010
We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point 50 percent answers. Our results indicate that for three of the four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136709
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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136944
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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies : Evidence from ELSA and HRS
Banks, James W. - 2010
correlated with these outcomes is a critical concern. We explored some possible reasons for these differences. Survey maturity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138484