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in agricultural production in the EU15 of about 0.93%. All regions reduce agriculture but show different magnitudes in …
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focus on agriculture, food processing and energy generation from byproducts. It is based on official statistics collected … from national and international institutions (national statistical office, ministry of agriculture and related research … processing sector and NGOs supporting agriculture and food processing. A top-down approach was followed starting with national …
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We study the effects of a Bolivian law that introduced benefits and protections for child workers (who are overwhelmingly informal workers) and lowered the de facto legal working age from 14 to 10. We employ a difference-in-discontinuity approach that exploits the variation in the law's...
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We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...
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We estimate the impact of access to information and communication technology on agricultural profitability and child labor among isolated villages in rural Peru. We exploit the timing of an intervention that provided at least one public (satellite) payphone to 6,296 villages that did not...
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This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...
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