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Colombia. It examines changes in the labor supply from on-farm to off-farm labor as a means of coping with the violent shock … decrease in consumption. The results suggest that in rural Colombia, labor markets are a limited alternative for coping with …
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overlaps not only in a period of high economic growth, but also after the implementation of Plan Colombia. The data set is used …
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Lifelong learning is increasingly being recognized as a primary factor for knowledge diffusion and productivity growth. However, little economic evidence exists on the economic value of lifelong learning for the individual, especially in developing countries. This paper contributes to remedy...
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In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the performance is now registered broadly across several types of countries-particularly the oil-exporting and resource-intensive countries and, in more recent years, the large- and...
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This paper discusses the analytical foundations of international comparisons for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. The paper presents the Stochastic Frontier approach and applies it to estimate feasible frontiers or...
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This paper provides experimental evidence of the effect of having peers with different propensities for violence in the … diverse peers in terms of violence, the study measures the effects of segregation or integration on students' behavioral …, neurophysiological, and academic outcomes. The paper also exploits a discontinuity around the median of the propensity for violence …
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violence. The phenomenon is observed in many countries, including in Brazil, despite its robust legal framework to prevent and … protect women from domestic violence. Through qualitative research, this paper explores the experience of women survivors of … violence against women (VAW) in seeking help to exit abusive relationships, with the aim of identifying avenues to strengthen …
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Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict …-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013 Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey …
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This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data … rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …
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This paper analyzes the incidence and extent to which domestic violence and physical harassment on public/private buses … underreporting is over nine percentage points for domestic violence and negligible for physical harassment on public/private buses …. Urban households, especially poor urban households, tend to have higher levels of incidence of domestic violence. Further …
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