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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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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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This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …
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It is a contentious issue whether large scale mining creates local employment, and the sector has been accused of … hurting women?s labor supply and economic opportunities. This paper uses the rapid expansion of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa …. Effects are stronger in years of high world prices. Mining creates local boom-bust economies in Africa, with permanent effects …
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