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Poverty in Bolivia continues to be among the highest in Latin America despite decades of concerted national and … international efforts to reduce it. Bolivia has meticulously followed the recommendations of the Washington consensus at the same … incomes remain at the same low level as they were 50 years ago. This paper suggests that the failure of previous development …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294050
Poverty in Bolivia continues to be among the highest in Latin America despite decades of concerted national and … international efforts to reduce it. Bolivia has meticulously followed the recommendations of the Washington consensus at the same … incomes remain at the same low level as they were 50 years ago. This paper suggests that the failure of previous development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294125
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/10010294162
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/10010294178
The relationship between income, cost of childrearing and fertility is of considerable political and theoretical interest. We utilize exogenous variation in family income and the direct cost of children to estimate causal effects on fertility. The variation comes from a regional child benefit...
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provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early age. We identify the effects of interest … investment of grandparents on the socio-behavioral development and the picture similarities measure of cognitive ability of …
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Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still...
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