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We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...
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Should the state treat men and women in identical ways, or should it legislate and enforce policies that are aware of gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, ideological, economic, political, and...
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Unequal income distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean is linked to unequal distributions of (human and physical) assets and differential access to markets and services. These circumstances, and the accompanying social tensions, need to be understood in terms of traditional fragmenting...
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This paper reviews evidence on social mobility in Latin America. Several studies have used data sets that collect intergenerational socio economic information. The data, though limited, suggest that social mobility is low in the region, even when compared with low social mobility developed...
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This paper provides evidence on the causal relationship between education and poverty. I construct a novel database comprising compulsory schooling reforms in 32 European countries and use them as instruments for education. I find economically large poverty-reducing effects of education among...
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Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …
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with two candidates. These candidates are interested in power and ideology, but their weights on these two motives are not … differentiation, respectively. Our analysis shows how these equilibrium configurations depend on the relative interests in power (resp …
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This work compares the different decarbonization strategies of the power sector in China, the European Union and the … differences between demand and supply, and the likely increase of electricity demand, an improvement of power transmission …
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new methods are designed to maximize the power of the underlying test while maintaining correct asymptotic size uniformly … size-correction methods, entailing substantially higher power for many testing problems. The second set of new methods …
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high use of productivity augmenting inputs. The study finds that poor public investment in power, all-weather roads and … marketing infrastructure, have constrained agriculture in Bihar. In particular, deficiencies in the power infrastructure have …., improve the quality and quantity of rural power supply by strengthening transmission and distribution and obtaining separation …
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