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Child quality and child quantity : evidence from Bolivian household surveys
Bredl, Sebastian - 2012
Models built on the classical quality-quantity trade-off predict an increase in child quality and a decrease in child quantity in poor developing countries when parental wealth and educational levels increase. This paper tests this prediction empirically in a cross-sectional framework with data...
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Sibling composition during childhood and adult blood pressure among native Amazonians in Bolivia
Zeng, Wu; Undurraga, Eduardo A.; Nyberg, Colleen; … - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 3, pp. 391-400
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Circumstances and determination of individual outcomes in Bolivia : family background and equality of opportunities (2003-2013)
Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro; Villegas Quino, Horacio - 2016
characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity) and family background (household characteristics and parental education). We handle and …
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : Bolivia country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2015
suffered a slowdown as a consequence of the international crisis of 2008, but Bolivia sustained positive growth rates during … poverty and inequality indicators decreased substantially between 2000 and 2012. The only negative impact of the international … crisis of 2008 was an interruption in the declining trend of unemployment. …
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Essays in empirical development and education economics
Lange, Simon - 2015
This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
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Explaining low redistributive impact in Bolivia
Arauco, Verónica Paz; Molina, George Gray; Aguilar, … - In: Public finance review : PFR 42 (2014) 3, pp. 326-345
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The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay : introduction to the special issue
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Scott, John - In: Public finance review : PFR 42 (2014) 3, pp. 287-303
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix with a distributional focus : the case of Bolivia
Thiele, Rainer; Piazolo, Daniel - 2002
services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …
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