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Autocracies and development in a global economy : a tale of two elites

Akerman, Anders; Seim, Anna Larsson; Naghavi, Alireza - 2011

's political elite. We build a theoretical framework where factors of production owned by the political elites differ across …

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Origins of Latin American inequality

Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023

How deep are the roots of Latin America's economic inequalities? In this chapter we survey both the history and the literature about the region's extreme economic disparities, focusing on the most recent academic contributions. We begin by documenting the broad patterns of national and...

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Origins of Latin American inequality

Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023

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Family change in Latin America : schooling and labor market implications for children and women

Esteve, Albert; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Becca, … - 2023

This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...

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The effect of tracking students by ability into different schools : a natural experiment

Guyon, Nina; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - 2010

The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries …. There is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and little agreement on the effects of any further increase in … its size. This paper presents a natural experiment where the increase in the size of the elite track was followed by a …