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Schooling and Labour Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto
Canelas, Carla - 2018
In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
The returns to schooling and the skill premium are key parameters in various fields and policy debates, including the literatures on globalization and inequality, international migration, and technological change. This paper explores the skill premium and its correlation with exports in Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462657
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Do Modern Forms of Human Capital Matter in Primitive Economies? Comparative Evidence from Bolivia
Godoy, Ricardo; Karlan, Dean S.; Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti - 2008
societies of Bolivia. Despite their remote location, we find results similar to those found in developed nations. We find that …
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Wasted years : informality and returns to education in Bolivia
Ossio, Pablo Mendieta - In: Revista latinoamericana de desarrollo económico 37 (2022), pp. 87-111
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
The returns to schooling and the skill premium are key parameters in various fields and policy debates, including the literatures on globalization and inequality, international migration, and technological change. This paper explores the skill premium and its correlation with exports in Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143455
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China's sloping land conversion program : does expansion equal success?
Xu, Jintao; Ran, Tao; Xu, Zhigang; Bennett, Michael T. - In: Land economics : applied research on environmental resources 86 (2010) 2, pp. 219-244
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Do teachers matter? : measuring the variation in teacher effectiveness in England
Slater, Helen; Davies, Neil; Burgess, Simon M. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831909
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Analysis for regional differences and influence factor of rural income in China
Chen, Jinyu; Zhang, Wenxiu - In: Modern economy 3 (2012) 5, pp. 578-583
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Ethanol, the agricultural economy and rural incomes in the United States : a bivariate econometric approach
Akinfenwa, Samson O.; Qasmi, Bashir A. - In: Agricultural and resource economics review : ARER 43 (2014) 2, pp. 319-333
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The impact of mobile money on poor rural households : experimental evidence from Uganda
Wieser, Christina; Bruhn, Miriam; Kinzinger, Johannes; … - 2019
This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...
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