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What you don't know can hurt you : or at least mislead you ; family behaviors, unobserved heterogeneities, and the determinants and impacts of human resources over the life cycle

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 9 (2008/09) 2, pp. 1-43

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Long-run economic losses from COVID-related preprimary program closures in Latin America and the Caribbean

López Bóo, Florencia; Behrman, Jere R.; Vazquez, Claudia - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 19-30

Hundreds of millions of children are losing learning opportunities, resulting in potentially large losses in their lifetime education, health, income, and productivity. Losses in long-term earnings from preprimary program closures due to COVID-19 can be unprecedented. Acute effects are plausible...

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Human resources in Latin America and the Caribbean

Behrman, Jere R. - 1996

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Conditional cash transfers for primary education : which children are left out?

Bauchet, Jonathan; Undurraga, Eduardo A.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 105 (2018), pp. 1-12

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Endogenous inclusion in the demographic and health survey anthropometric sample : implications for studying height within households

Spears, Dean; Coffey, Diane; Behrman, Jere R. - In: Journal of development economics 155 (2022), pp. 1-10

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International trade openness and gender gaps in Pakistani labor force participation rates over 57 years

Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R. - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 17 (2012) 3, pp. 367-382

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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills : roles of ses and gender attitudes

Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021

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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills: roles of SES and gender attitudes

Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

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Paradox and perception : measuring quality of life in Latin America // Inter-American Development Bank

Graham, Carol (contributor); Lora, Eduardo (contributor); … - 2009

Improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America using a broad "quality-of-life" concept that challenges standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income. Builds upon new economic approaches related to the study...

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning...

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