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To What Extent Do Latin Americans Trust and Cooperate? Field Experiments on Social Exclusion in Six Latin American Countries
Chong, Alberto - 2014
This paper explores the extent to which individuals trust, reciprocate, cooperate and pool risk by using a battery of field experiments containing the trust game, the voluntary contributions mechanism and the risk pooling game; applied in six capital cities in Latin America. The results suggest...
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Social Exclusion in Latin America : Introduction and Overview
Behrman, Jere - 2014
are important for the determination of income and thus poverty and income inequality and that are relatively amenable to …
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Social Exclusion and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berkman, Heather - 2011
This paper examines how social exclusion contributes to violence in communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Residents in socially excluded communities cannot depend on those institutions designed to protect them, and violence becomes an instrument to achieve certain outcomes,...
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Social Exclusion : Residential Segregation in Bolivian Cities
Gray-Molina, George - 2014
This study analyzes the impact of ethnic-based residential segregation on income and education outcomes in Bolivian …
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Social Exclusion of Nicaraguans in the Urban Metropolitan Area of San Jose, Costa Rica
Funkhouser, Edward - 2014
The large number of recent Nicaraguan immigrants to Costa Rica during the 1990s have outcomes that are worse than Costa Ricans in many dimensions. Moreover, Nicaraguans are geographically and occupationally concentrated. This paper documents the magnitude of Nicaraguan group effects and examines...
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Social Exclusion and the Two-Tiered Healthcare System of Brazil
Alves, Denisard - 2014
In Brazil, there exists a two-tiered system of healthcare access. Those with sufficient means have access to a private system of healthcare that provides quality treatment on demand, while the remainder of the country relies on an overburdened system of public clinics and hospitals. Household...
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Education and Democratic Preferences
Chong, Alberto - 2011
This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in rodemocracy views. These …
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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation
Pagés, Carmen - 2011
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
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The Political Economy of Pension Reform : Public Opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Machado, Fabiana V. P. - 2016
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Do the Rich Save More in Latin America?
Gandelman, Nestor - 2015
-stage procedure in which the household's lifetime income is instrumented with the education level of the household head and the … education level of his/her partner. Second, using information on home assets, the paper constructs a wealth index. There is …
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