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– A comparison across different selection models
This study focuses on estimating the returns to education in non-farm self-employed businesses in the Indian context, using nationwide individual- and household-level data provided by the India Human Development Survey for the year 2011/12. Given that different studies have used different types of...
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– A regression discontinuity approach
This paper estimates returns to schooling in Thailand, applying a regression discontinuity approach to the change in the compulsory schooling law in 1978. This law helped to enhance human capital investment on the eve of rapid structural transformation. The returns to schooling based on our...
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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– Argentina from 1996 to 2003
Part of Journal Special Issue
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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– Poverty, Risk, and Vulnerability in Rural Ethiopia
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– Looking Beyond Income to Health and Education
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This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty and inequality, and by their distributional...
– Can Shared Growth be Sustained?
Asia is widely regarded as the region which has benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization: poverty has been steadily declining over the last three decades in most Asian countries. The 'shared growth' model achieved through increased trade and foreign direct...
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This paper provides unique evidence of the positive consequences of seasonal migration for investments in early childhood development. We analyse migration in a poor shock-prone border region in rural Nicaragua where it offers one of the main household income diversification and risk coping...
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– Argentina from 1996 to 2003
In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe economic decline. In this paper, we use a series of one-year long panels to study who gained the most in pesos when the economy grew and who lost the most in pesos when the economy contracted. To answer...
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