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Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting

Couture, Victor - 2019

We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with heterogeneous agents and non-homothetic preferences for neighborhoods with endogenous amenity quality. As the rich...

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Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States : 2019 Presidential Address for the Economic History Association

Fishback, Price V. - 2020

The growth of American governments in the twentieth century included large increases in funds for social insurance and public assistance. Social insurance has increased far more than public assistance, so "rise in the social insurance state" is a far better description of the century than "rise...

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Stirring Up a Hornets' Nest : Geographic Distribution of Crime

Galiani, Sebastian - 2016

This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. When the police protect some neighborhoods (concentrated protection), the city becomes segregated. When the police are evenly deployed across the city (dispersed protection), an integrated city emerges. Unequal...

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Conditional cash transfers in education design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia

Barrera Osorio, Felipe (contributor) - 2008

"We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the …

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Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2008

We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the …

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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education … novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …

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Capital Flows, Real Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls : Some Latin American Experiences

Edwards, Sebastian - 1998

This paper deals with some of the most important aspects of Latin America's experience with capital flows during the last twenty-five years. The paper begins with a historical analysis. I then deal with the sequencing of reform and discuss issues related to the relationship between capital...

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