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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 … proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on …
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microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among … local areas are important. We do find evidence that women invested the grants differently from men. A smaller share of the …
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity … indigenous families follows rules closely related to patriarchal family structures (in which women have limited decision …
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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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Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use … microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source, women with present-biased preferences are more likely than others to borrow …
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This paper describes a semiparametric Bayesian method for analyzing duration data. The proposed estimator specifies a complete functional form for duration spells, but allows flexibility by introducing an individual heterogeneity term, which follows a Dirichlet mixture distribution. I show how...
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reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some … recalibration. We find that when the macroeconomic conditions in Bolivia allow for a 10 percent reduction in the poverty rate …A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a …
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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 … proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646285
ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …
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