middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state … effect is contingent on political factors related to Mexico's democratic transition. Killings increased substantially more in …

This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … with a negative income shock. In addition, marriages precipitated by negative income shocks may present specific features … prevalence of bride price. Compared to women who experienced the same shock but lived in a province where bride price is …

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and … Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We …

using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …

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 …