use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …

In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …

Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic …

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …

family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile …, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across …

economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support at all in … the case of Argentina. Rather, earnings mobility is most frequently convergent or neutral in all three countries. As for …

with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …