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Factores de la deserción escolar en Brasil. El papel de la paternidad temprana, la mano de obra infantil y la pobreza
Rute Cardoso, Ana; Verner, Dorte - In: El Trimestre Económico LXXVIII (2) (2011) 310, pp. 377-402
This paper aims to identify the major factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, namely, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in these neighborhoods, which covered both in-school and...
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Los costos de la violencia en América Latina: Una crítica al enfoque económico en boga
Rubio, Mauricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
En este documento se hacen algunas anotaciones y reflexiones alrededor del tema de los costos de la violencia, tema que … ha ganado importancia como elemento de soporte al diseño de intervenciones en materia de violencia en América Latina. El … magnitud de la violencia, requisito indispensable para el diagnóstico del fenómeno y para que tenga algún sentido el cálculo de …
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ESTUDIO EXPLORATORIO SOBRE TENDENCIAS DEL MARCO LEGAL CONTRA LA VIOLENCIA INTRAFAMILIAR EN AMÉRICA LATINA
Avilés, Dager Aguilar - In: Contribuciones a las Ciencias Sociales (2010) 2010-03
de la violencia intrafamiliar ya que acarrearía múltiples implicaciones a escala global, al interior de cada país …, comunidad e individuos.La violencia como ejercicio inadecuado de la fuerza o del poder, por lo tanto es una conducta aprendida y …
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La violencia en Latinoamérica y sus efectos sobre la inversión y la educación/Violence in Latin America and its Effects in Investment an Education
OSPINA PLAZA, NATALIA; GIMÉNEZ ESTEBAN, GREGORIO - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 27 (2009) Diciembre, pp. 781-781
La región de América Latina se caracteriza por tener las tasas más elevadas de violencia criminal. La elevada violencia … la violencia. El estudio se acompaña de un análisis de datos de panel para los países de la región, durante el periodo … 1995 – 2002, que investiga en la relación entre violencia e inversión en capital físico y humano. Del análisis se desprende …
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Los costos de la violencia en América Latina: Una crítica al enfoque económico en boga
Rubio, Mauricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
En este documento se hacen algunas anotaciones y reflexiones alrededor del tema de los costos de la violencia, tema que … ha ganado importancia como elemento de soporte al diseño de intervenciones en materia de violencia en América Latina. El … magnitud de la violencia, requisito indispensable para el diagnóstico del fenómeno y para que tenga algún sentido el cálculo de …
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Regional inequality and internal conflict
Lessmann, Christian - 2013
This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level re- gional...
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Social security, differential fertility, and the dynamics of the earnings distribution
Zhao, Kai - 2009
Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...
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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application
Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008
It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...
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Same same but different: Changing career expectations in Germany?
Kattenbach, Ralph; Lücke, Janine; Schlese, Michael; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 4, pp. 292-312
Contemporary career research assumes more flexible career patterns implying increased job mobility. However, there is growing doubt that the proclaimed change is as drastic as has been suggested. We provide empirical evidence on career expectations in Germany between 1999 and 2009, arguing that...
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Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Columbia
Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - 2006
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program implemented in rural areas in Colombia since 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a difference-in-difference framework, our results show that the program increased school participation of 14 to...
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