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This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long …-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...
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incipient in Bolivia, this paper's objective is to generate evidence about energy poverty evolution in the country … weight structure as a robustness exercise. Results show that the risk of being energy poor in Bolivia has decreased, but not …
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elites are many, including producing generational disabilities in underclasses to prevent upward mobility and the development …
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quality, partly due to the substantial presence of the informal sector. This paper examines the case of Bolivia, which has the … education in Bolivia provides an additional explanation for the reduction in female participation in the informal sector, as … that the rise in primary school enrollment in Bolivia explains up to 40% of the decline in female workers under age 40 in …
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We study the role played by the standard of living during childhood on nest leaving. Using data from SHARE, we show empirically that individuals who grew up in a golden nest leave the parental home later and that education only partially mediates this effect. This relationship holds across...
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