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Shelter from the storm : upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums

Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Cooper, Ryan; … - 2014

This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal effects that upgrading slum dwellings has on the living conditions of the extremely poor. In particular, we study the impact of providing better houses in situ to slum dwellers in El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the...

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Sequential ordering of deprivations : district-level measurements and cluster mapping of level-senstitive improvements in India

Chakraborty, Vaidik; Mishra, Udaya S. - 2024

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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2015

sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers …, rather than morbidity, nutritional status, and development. Also, it has generally not been possible to separately estimate …

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School health programs : education, health, and welfare dependency of young adults

Abrahamsen, Signe A.; Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie - 2021

college attendance for girls. It also reduced the take-up of welfare benefits by ages 26 and 30 and increased the planned use …

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Understanding the growth of the middle class in Bolivia

Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2021

In this paper we aim to disentangle how sectoral economic growth affects the size of the middle class, using state-level data of Bolivia from 2000 to 2017 and breaking the three main economic activities into subsectors to attain more-specific results. Because the data from Bolivia are limited,...

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Health shocks and the evolution of earnings over the life-cycle

Capatina, Elena; Keane, Michael P.; Maruyama, Shiko - 2020

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Institutions do not rule : reassessing the driving forces of economic development

Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015

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In search of larger per capita incomes : how to prioritize across productivity determinants?

Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016

This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....

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The productivity gap in Latin America : lessons from 50 years of development

Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Apolinar, Sergio - 2016

This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …

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Child development in the early years : parental investment and the changing dynamics of different domains

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bernal, Raquel; Giannola, Michele; … - 2021

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