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Domínguez, Patricio; Ruffini, Krista - 2020

investments in public education can generate long-term improvements in economic well-being. …

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Who benefits from tuition-free, top-quality universities? : evidence from Brazil

Duryea, Suzanne; Ribas, Rafael Pérez; Sampaio, Breno; … - 2023

, still graduate from college but with much lower returns to education. Highincome applicants who just miss the cutoff … affordable higher education in promoting social mobility. …

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Interactions between conditional cash transfers and preferred secondary schools in Jamaica

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2022

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...

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Can conditional cash transfers alter the effectiveness of other human capital development policies?

Beuermann, Diether W.; Ramos Bonilla, Andrea; Stampini, … - 2024

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...

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Conditional cash transfers for women and spousal violence : evidence of the long-term relationship from the Oportunidades program in Rural Mexico

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Castro, Roberto; Morales, Juan S. - 2015

This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program. It uses data from three nationally representative surveys that include detailed information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats...

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Domestic violence reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Latin America

Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.; Carreras, Enrique - 2021

This article examines changes in the frequency and characteristics of domestic violence reports after the start of the pandemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions in six Latin American countries. The study uses three types of data sources: calls to domestic violence hotlines (for the...

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Quantifying domestic violence in times of crisis

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Siudae, Fabian - 2020

Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may reﬂect a low reporting-propensity, exacerbated by the lockdown measures....

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Economic determinants of intimate partner violence : the case of Sweden during Covid-19

Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Gerrell, Manne - 2022

We document an increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Sweden during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, notwithstanding the famously lasseiz-faire approach taken by the coutry. We investigate the role of different mediating factors, affected by the pandemic, by the...

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Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fernández, Raquel; Pagés, Carmen; Székely, Miguel; … - 2023

Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct … (generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …

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Digging deep : resource exploitation and higher education

Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Rivera, … - 2022

Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher … education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction … increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a …

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