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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …
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the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …
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Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …
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collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …
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Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
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This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …
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supports. Using data for Peru in the period 1986-2000, I found that this problem of non-comparability accounts for 23% and 30 … explicitly recognizing these differences in the supports. In this way, the 45% gender wage gap in Peru is decomposed as: 11 …
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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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This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia …, especially benefiting the least skilled workers and the informal sector. On the other hand, the wage distribution in Colombia …
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, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across …
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