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Geography, Policy, or Productivity? Regional Trade in Five South American Countries, 1910-1950
Badia-Miro, Marc - 2015
Regional trade in South America since independence has long been much smaller than would be expected if geography were the only constraint on trade. Several potential explanations exist: low technological and demand complementarities; low productivity; high natural and policy barriers to trade....
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Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations
Caruso Bloeck, Martin - 2017
This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic transition from its currently young population to a rapidly aging one, especially since the region's...
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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ball, Laurence - 2011
This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural population and that the effects of government...
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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America
Caruso Bloeck, Martin; Galiani, Sebastian; … - 2021
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...
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Law and Employment : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Heckman, James J.; Pages, Carmen - 2021
This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a forthcoming NBER book. It places Latin American economies and economic policies in a world context. The paper quantifies the cost of regulation in Latin America and OECD Europe...
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in...
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The Short Term Impact of a Productive Asset Transfer in Families with Child Labor : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2019
Productive asset grants have become an important tool in efforts to push the very poor out of poverty, but they require labor to convert the asset into income. Using a clustered randomized trial, we work with the Government of the Philippines to evaluate a key component of their child labor...
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James - 2015
We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary … and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only … offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked …
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The Impact of Minimum Age of Employment Regulation on Child Labor and Schooling : Evidence from Unicef Mics Countries
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2013
Promoting minimum age of employment regulation has been a centerpiece in child labor policy for the last 15 years. If enforced, minimum age regulation would change the age profile of paid child employment. Using micro-data from 59 mostly low-income countries, we observe that age can explain less...
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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2014
How important are subsistence concerns in a family's decision to send a child to work? We consider this question in Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. Winning the cash transfer lottery is...
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