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This paper investigates the potential of information technology to improve public service delivery and empower citizens. The investigation uses two randomized natural experiments in the renewal of national identification cards by the Bolivian Police. The first experiment arises from the random...
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This paper studies gender education gaps among indigenous and nonindigenous groups in Bolivia. Using the National …
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products in Bolivia, across the four most important cities, and with the world, over the period 1991-2008. Within Bolivia …. The perennial result of asymmetric price adjustment to foreign shocks also holds for Bolivia: domestic prices respond …
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This paper explores the reduction of food insecurity in Bolivia, adopting a supply side approach that analyzes the role … other sectors in Bolivia. This is confirmed through a number of specifications, including contemporaneous and lagged …
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This paper investigates the determinants of primary school enrollment, attendance and child labor in Bolivia from 1999 …
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This paper takes advantage of repeated cross-section household surveys and a sharp discontinuity created by the introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to elders. The paper evaluates the impact of these cash transfers on the educational expenditures for children within a household. The...
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Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...
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always been guided by two basic principles: representative democracy, and a proper division of power between national and … drawn to centralized democracy, as national elites may prefer to centralize power around themselves. America's successful …
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This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …
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This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central -- but still contested -- assumption of the political...
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