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Social Mobility in Bolivia is Finally Improving!
Andersen, Lykke Eg - Instituto de Investigaciones Socio Económicas (IISEC), … - 2010
This paper evaluates the degree of social mobility in Bolivia, both by comparing to other Latin American countries, and … by comparing social mobility at different points in time. While Bolivia had one of the lowest levels of social mobility …. This is very good news, as it suggests that Bolivia has finally escaped the low mobility – low growth equilibrium where it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991886
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Baja Movilidad Social en Bolivia: Causas y Consecuencias para el Desarrollo
Andersen, Lykke Eg - Instituto de Investigaciones Socio Económicas (IISEC), … - 2002
El presente documento investiga la movilidad social en Bolivia y discute sus implicancias para la reducción de la … movilidad social es muy baja en Bolivia, inclusive con respecto a estándares latinoamericanos. Esto se debe principalmente a un …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991934
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making – willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762390
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Low Social Mobility in Bolivia: Causes and Consequences for Development
Andersen, Lykke Eg - Instituto de Investigaciones Socio Económicas (IISEC), … - 2001
This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia. It is an issue of high policy relevance as the degree of social … data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American standards. This is mainly caused by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991959
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Cuando las Mujeres son las que Mandan: Efecto del Ahorro en el Empoderamiento de la Mujer Boliviana
Portugal, Hugo Pablo Rocha; Cossio, Diego A. Vera - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2014
y al ahorro de 3.000 hogares en zonas urbanas de Bolivia, con la que construimos varias medidas de empoderamiento …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156783
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Human capital and the probability of divorce
zax, ori - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Concern about the high poverty rates experienced by children in female-headed households has led to policies aimed at increasing these households' income. In this paper we present a model that analyzes decisions made before and during marriage to invest in the human capital of parents and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113853
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More on Marriage, Fertility, and the Distribution of Income.
Greenwood, J.; Guner, N.; Knkwles, J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
According to Pareto, the distribution of income depends on "the nature of the people comprising a society, on the organization of the latter, and, also, in part, on An overlapping generations model of marriage, fertility and nature of the is captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625912
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Economic Trajectories in Non-Traditional Families with Children
McLanahan, Sara; Knab, Jean; Meadows, Sarah - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study this paper examines associations between family structure and economic trajectories during the first five years after a child’s birth, paying special attention to non-traditional families. Among families with stable structures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928143
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Children's Resources in Collective Households: Identification, Estimation, and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi
Dunbar, Geoffrey R.; Lewbel, Arthur; Pendakur, Krishna - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 438-71
The share of household resources devoted to children is hard to identify because consumption is measured at the household level and goods can be shared. Using semiparametric restrictions on individual preferences within a collective model, we identify how total household resources are divided up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815690
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The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children
Ananat, Elizabeth O.; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent work has exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect of marital break-up on economic outcomes, and has concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s...
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