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This paper presents an overview of how health outcomes vary across cities in Latin America and discusses some of the … known drivers of this variation. There are large disparities in outcomes across cities and across neighborhoods of the same … sharply across cities, and much of this variation can be explained by observable local characteristics - particularly …
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This paper investigates what explains the variation in impacts of COVID-19 across Brazilian cities. I assemble data … from over 2,500 cities on COVID-19 cases and deaths, population mobility, and local policy responses. I study how these … in cities with higher income levels consistent with the fact that higher incomes correlate with greater mobility in …
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School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental investment in schools via voluntary contributions....
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Assessing the trade impacts of domestic transport costs is data demanding and analyses that examine the effects of road quality, a critical aspect in regional and public policy, practically do not exist in the international trade literature. The few studies available rely mostly on distancebased...
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This paper presents findings from the Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, PRIDI for its acronym in Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in children aged 24 to 59 months in four domains: cognition, language and communication, socio-emotional...
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Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...
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We study the sectoral allocation of public infrastructure investments in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in India. In addition to the changing employment and output shares of these two sectors, the capital output ratio in agriculture in India has fallen, while it has risen in...
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