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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 …

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Constitutions and economic development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....

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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016

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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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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Laws and norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Button, Patrick; Walker, Brigham - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and...

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Does more money make you fat? The effects of quasi-experimental income transfers on adolescent and young adult obesity

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - 2010

This paper examines how exogenous income transfers during adolescence affect contemporaneous body mass index (BMI) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra income differ depending on the households' initial...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Feir, Donna L.; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie E. C. - 2022

This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...

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