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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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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...
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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 … suggest that Bolivia, which has implemented left-wing economic policies, has experienced a general increase in wages …
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country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia excels in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the …
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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 …
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quality in Bolivia, this paper employs Bolivian household survey data spanning 2007 to 2021 to construct a synthetic job …, availability of career opportunities, and employment resilience. The findings indicate that job quality in Bolivia has mostly …
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