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The Effects of the Colombian Trade Liberalization on Urban Poverty

Goldberg, Pinelopi - 2012

We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with...

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A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013

Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective enough to build an empire. But there has been an explosion of poor mega-cities over the last thirty years. A simple urban model illustrates that in closed...

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The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools on Non-Test Score Outcomes

Dobbie, Will - 2013

High-performing charter schools can significantly increase the test scores of poor urban students. It is unclear whether these test score gains translate into improved outcomes later in life. We estimate the effects of high-performing charter schools on human capital, risky behaviors, and health...

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Public Universities, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Jim Crow : Evidence from North Carolina

Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2015

College attendance and completion in the U.S. are strongly correlated with race and socioeconomic background. Do public postsecondary institutions themselves exacerbate pre-college disparities, or reduce them? We address this question using longitudinal data linking the records of students at...

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Remedying Education : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Cole, Shawn Allen; Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021

Many efforts to improve school quality by adding school resources have proven to be ineffective. This paper presents the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education program...

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Urban Poverty, School Attendance, and Adolescent Labor Force Attachment : Some Historical Evidence

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2021

It is well known that children raised in poverty demonstrate lower academic achievement than children raised in affluence. This study extends previous studies in three ways. First, it estimates structural instead of reduced-form models of child academic attainment. Such structural models...

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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor

Bessone, Pedro; Rao, Gautam; Schilbach, Frank; … - 2021

The urban poor in developing countries face challenging living environments, which may interfere with good sleep. Using actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on average despite spending 8 hours in bed. Their sleep...

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Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?

Neumark, David; Adams, Scott J. - 2022

Many cities in the United States have recently passed living wage ordinances. These ordinances typically mandate that businesses under contract with the city or, in some cases, receiving assistance from the city, must pay their workers a wage sufficient to support a family financially. To date,...

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Recent Trends in Housing Conditions Among the Urban Poor

Blank, Rebecca M.; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

In this paper we examine the trends in housing conditions among the urban poor over the last decade, relate these trends to the economic environments of the cities, and compare the poor to other income groups. We find that there has been a substantial decrease in "housing independence" -- among...

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Why Have Economic Reforms in Mexico Not Generated Growth?

Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2010

Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at … that the relation between openness and growth is not a simple one. Using standard trade theory, we find that Mexico has … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …

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