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Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …
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proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
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-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
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In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
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country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A …) regulation applicable and compliant, (B) regulation applicable and non-compliant, (C) regulation non-applicable after adjustment … of activity, and (D) regulation non-applicable to the activity. Rather than use the generic labels 'informal' and 'formal …
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We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …
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regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...
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