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The Impact of Contracting in and Contracting out Basic Health Services: The Guatemalan Experience
Cristia, Julian; Prado, Ariadna García; Peluffo, Cecilia - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 215-227
This paper uses a difference-in-difference strategy to evaluate a program in Guatemala that expanded access to health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011209252
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The Role of Ethnicity in Father Absence and Children’s School Enrollment in Guatemala
Ishida, Kanako - In: Population Research and Policy Review 29 (2010) 4, pp. 569-591
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596916
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The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults
Maluccio, John A.; Hoddinott, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2003
Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early childhood nutrition on education in developing countries by using unique longitudinal data begun during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126682
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What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-Schooling, Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2006
uses an unusually rich longitudinal data set collected over 35 years in Guatemala to investigate production functions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102107
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Marches ruraux du travail et la pauvrete dans les pays en developpement.
S, Radwan - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1989
Comprises seven case studies taken from a larger project on rural labour markets and employment policies. Examines how rural labour markets function and the complex factors that condition their outcomes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690097
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Local Means in Value Chain Ends: Dynamics of Product and Social Upgrading in Apparel Manufacturing in Guatemala and Colombia
Pipkin, Seth - In: World Development 39 (2011) 12, pp. 2119-2131
observations from eight months of field research in Guatemala and Colombia, where upgrading firms have their own nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574042
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The Latin American and Caribbean Energy Review 2003
Garrón, Mauricio; Villarreal, Alejandro; Chiliquinga, Byron - EconWPA - 2005
The 2003 Energy review,contains information about the 2003 energy situation of each of our member countries, regional data, as well as economic and social indicators corrected and extended through historical series. It presents and innovative structure for analysis that allows the reader to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118923
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The oil palm boom: socio-economic implications for Q’eqchi’ households in the Polochic valley, Guatemala
Mingorría, Sara; Gamboa, Gonzalo; Martín-López, Berta; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 16 (2014) 4, pp. 841-871
-being in two indigenous communities of the Polochic valley, Guatemala. Combining participant observation, semi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010997244
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Ethnic and Gender Wage Discrimination in Guatemala
William F. Vásquez* - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2011) 2, pp. 109-126
This paper compares the influence of gender and ethnicity on wage discrimination in Guatemala using the 2000 Living … Standards Measurement Survey. The sample of employees is divided into six ethnic-gender groups: males and females in three … structures for each ethnic gender group including the inverse of Mill's ratio as a regressor to correct for potential selectivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213157
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Einkommen, Geschlecht und Arbeitsplatzwechsel in Russland 1998. Earnings, Gender, and Mobility in the RF 1995-1998
Smirnych, Larissa; Woergoetter, Andreas - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2000
of academics and managers. The gender gap of about 30% may be reduced by higher education or leadership. Both premia are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764279