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Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic policies. Climate change will probably have an impact on the productivity of factors and on the health of the population of the Latin America and Caribbean region, triggering...
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This study assesses the empirical relevance of the Harris-Todaro model at high levels of urbanization a feature that characterizes an increasing number of developing countries, which were largely rural when the model was created 50 years ago. Using data from Brazil, the paper compares observed...
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This paper explores the effects of weather-induced rural-urban migration on urban labor and housing markets in Brazil. In order to identify causal effects, it uses weather shocks to the rural municipalities of origin of migrants. We show that larger migration shocks led to an increase in...
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developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a lab-in-the-field experiment with poor parents in … well as study the role of household resources. I find that parents are driven by efficiency considerations rather than …
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developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents … inequality concerns over children’s final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the …
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The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, we construct a simple model to examine the conditions for slums to emerge....
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Reproductive health, including maternal health, is an important issue for Chinaś migrant population. This paper briefly reviews the reproductive health situation, including reproductive health knowledge and status, health service use, and interventions among rural-to-urban migrants. By...
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