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Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Cooper, Ryan; … - 2014

This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal effects that upgrading slum dwellings has on the living conditions of the extremely poor. In particular, we study the impact of providing better houses in situ to slum dwellers in El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the...

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Happiness, Ideology and Crime in Argentine Cities

di Tella, Rafael; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - 2009

living in six Argentine cities. While no relationship is found between happiness and victimization experiences, a correlation …

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Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality

Keefer, Philip; Milanovi´c, Branko - 2014

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...

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Promover la recuperación y la resiliencia de la población desplazada: Lecciones de Colombia

Ibáñez, Ana María; Moya, Andrés; Velásquez, Andrea - 2023

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Is entrepreneurship a channel of social mobility in Latin America?

Castellani, Francesca; Lora, Eduardo - 2013

This paper provides a summary of the findings contained in a forthcoming issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship in Latin America as a vehicle for upward social mobility, especially for the middle class. The income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel...

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The Effect of In-Service Teacher Training on Student Learning of English as a Second Language

Bando Grana, Rosangela; Li, Xia - 2014

In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...

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Does Access to Better Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Improve Child Outcomes? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Schady, Norbert - 2015

I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that there are large differences in access across countries and, within countries, between households living in urban and rural areas. Many papers in the public health literature...

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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....

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Intra-generational Social Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay

Bukstein, Daniel; Gandelman, Nestor - 2012

This paper follows an income-based, time-dependence approach to measure social mobility in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. The paper finds that social mobility in Uruguay is considerable and reports evidence suggesting that this mobility is greater within cohorts of groups, such as those defined...

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Allocative efficiency of government spending for growth in Latin American countries

Pessino, Carola; Altinok, Nadir; Chagalj, Cristian - 2022

spending across different functions to achieve higher growth. While most papers restrict their analysis to the size of … government, much less is known about the composition of spending and its implications for long-term growth. This paper sheds … expenditures, enhance growth in Latin America. This paper uses a novel dataset on physical and human capital and detailed public …

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