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Heterogenous Peer Effects, Segregation and Academic Attainment
Lugo, Maria Ana - 2017
Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive' peer effects'. Yet standard, linear-in-means models of peer effects (a) implicitly assume that segregation is zero sum, with gains and losses to rich and poor perfectly offsetting, and (b) rule out...
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Extending the School Day in Latin America and the Caribbean
Holland, Peter - 2017
Countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean are reforming their education systems to add more hours to the school day. This paper examines the evidence on the relationship between instructional time and student learning, reviewing 19 studies that measure the effects of longer school...
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America : Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent....
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The Social Lives of Married Women : Peer Effects in Female Autonomy and Investments in Children
Kandpal, Eeshani - 2019
In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends, and over 80 percent do not have any...
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Performance of Fe Y Alegria High School Students in Colombia : Is it a Matter of Fe (Faith) or Alegria (Joy)?
Osorio, Juan Carlos Parra - 2017
72,000 students in 61 schools. This paper assesses the performance of Fe y Alegria secondary schools in Colombia using … students belong. Simple statistics suggest that Fe y Alegria schools perform worse than other schools for all years in the … sample. However, Fe y Alegria schools also cater to poorer students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Once controls …
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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?
Roberts, Mark - 2017
Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the...
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Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries : A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia
Apella, Ignacio - 2018
The objective of this paper is to study the evolution of the incidence and profile of nonstandard workers in selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia in the past two decades. The analysis of the profile of this group of workers focuses on three key...
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The Rise of China and Labor Market Adjustments in Latin America
Artuc, Erhan - 2018
This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study proposes an index to measure the impact on trade, which suggests sizable effects, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index...
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Measuring Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : Methodological Considerations When Estimating an Empirical Regional Poverty Line
Castaneda, Raul - 2017
This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date urban official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18...
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Benchmarking Container Port Technical Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean : A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Sarriera, Javier Morales - 2017
This paper presents a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier model. A 10-year panel is employed with data on container throughput, port terminal area, length of berths, and number of cranes available in 67...
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