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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
López Bóo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
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COVID-19 doesn't need lockdowns to destroy jobs : the effect of local outbreaks in Korea
Aum, Sangmin; Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2020
Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk, had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...
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The unequal impact of the coronavirus pandemic : evidence from seventeen developing countries
Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Vera Cossío, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2020
results provide evidence that the current public health crisis will exacerbate economic inequality, and they are among the rst …
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Higher inequality in Latin America : a collateral effect of the pandemic
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022
This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …
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The Long-Term Impact of Children's Disabilities on Families
Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn; Steingrimsdottir, Herdis - 2019
parents’ career trajectories, their balance sheets, and major life decisions using detailed register data from Denmark. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142398
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Urban watershed services for improved ecosystem management and risk reduction, assessment methods and policy instruments : state of the art
Depietri, Yaella; Guadagno, Lorenzo; Breil, Margaretha - 2013
Under scenarios of increasing unplanned urban expansion, environmental degradation and hazard exposure, the vulnerability of urban populations, especially of their poorer segments, needs to be tackled through integrated economic, social and environmental solutions. Basing our analysis on the...
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Do non-monetary prices target the poor? : evidence from a field experiment in India
Hoffmann, Bridget - 2016
This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
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Did you get your shots? : experimental evidence on the role of reminders
Busso, Matias; Cristia, Julian; Humpage, Sarah - 2015
Many families fail to vaccinate their children despite the supply of these services at no cost. This study tests whether personal reminders can increase demand for vaccination. A field experiment was conducted in rural Guatemala in which timely reminders were provided to families whose children...
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The short- and long-term effects of student absence : evidence from Sweden
Cattan, Sarah; Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021
Despite the relatively uncontested importance of promoting school attendance in the policy arena, little evidence exists on the causal effect of school absence on long-run socio-economic outcomes. We address this question by combining historical and administrative records for cohorts of Swedish...
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The younger age profile of COVID-19 deaths in developing countries
Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Fowler, Annabelle; Herrera L., Nicolás - 2020
This paper examines why a larger share of COVID-19 deaths occurs among young and middle-aged adults in developing countries than in high-income countries. Using novel data at the country, city, and patient levels, we investigate the drivers of this gap in terms of the key components of the...
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