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Culture and human capital investments: evidence of an unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2008

in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268628

Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia: A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada

Hurley, Jeremiah; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2002

Canada?s restrictions on the role of private health insurance for publicly insured physician and hospital services are unique among countries with universal, publicly funded health care systems. Pressure is mounting in Canada, however, to loosen these restrictions and create a parallel system of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271940

Estimating the impacts of Bolivia's protected areas on poverty

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier; Hanauer, Merlin M. - 2012

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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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects: Evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012

-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …

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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States

Cortes, Kalena E. - 2004

This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...

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Adjusting Household Structure : School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - 2004

Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological parents may be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and child fixed effects regressions to address the endogeneity...

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Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality

Meckl, Jürgen; Zink, Stefan - 2003

The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of physical capital changes relative factor prices and thus incentives to acquire skills, thereby altering the...

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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...

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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009

This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...

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Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind

Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2009

Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...

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