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Work versus school? : the effect of work on educational expenditures for children in Mexico
Kaletski, Elizabeth - 2016
This paper explores the impact of child labor on child welfare, with a specific focus on the relationship between working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for children age 5-14 in Mexico. I accomplish this using a...
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Impact of School Quality on Child Labor and School Attendance : The Case of CONAFE Compensatory Education Program in Mexico
Rossi, Maria Christina; Rosati, Furio C. - 2014
This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185226
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Child Labor, School Attendance, and Indigenous Households : Evidence from Mexico
Patrinos, Harry A.; López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Bando … - 2014
The authors use panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 1999 to test several assumptions regarding the impact of a conditional cash transfer program on child labor, emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the conditional cash transfer program in Mexico - PROGRESA...
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Los rendimientos de la educación en México
Morales-Ramos, Eduardo - 2011
This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that the literature reports in this type of estimations is tried to be solved using the control function method. Through this method some variables relevant to wage determination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322625
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Los rendimientos de la educación en México
Morales-Ramos, Eduardo - 2011
This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that the literature reports in this type of estimations is tried to be solved using the control function method. Through this method some variables relevant to wage determination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009348036
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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico
Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024
hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … the inappropriate days can be attributed to hospital inefficiency (36% in Brazil and 49% in Mexico), an important share is … days in Brazil and 7% in Mexico. In a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we estimate that providing six weeks of long …
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Counting child domestic servants in Latin America
Levison, Deborah; Langer, Anna - In: Population and development review 36 (2010) 1, pp. 125-149
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Child labor : a global view
Schmitz, Cathryne L. (contributor);  … - 2004
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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870836
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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872717