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The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools around the world, forcing school systems and students to quickly attempt remote learning. A rapid response phone survey of over 1,500 high school students aged 14 to 18 in Ecuador was conducted to learn how students spend their time during the period of...
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People migrate to improve their well-being, whether through an expansion of economic and social opportunities or a reduction in persecution. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a stressful process, with potentially negative impacts on mental health, reducing the net benefits of...
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Mental health, well-being, and lasting economic outcomes are intimately connected. However, in geographies marked by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), entrepreneurs of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) experience chronic stress and poor mental health on a regular basis. These...
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In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of positive income shocks on the mental health of adolescent girls using experimental evidence from a cash transfer program in Malawi. They find that the provision of monthly cash transfers had a strong beneficial impact on the mental health of...
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market outcomes. This paper tests this hypothesis in a developing country by using an individual-level data set from Peru … of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of …
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screen out high credit risk and potentially increase access to credit for small business owners in Peru. The analysis uses …
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This paper examines whether labor productivity converged across Peru?s regions (?departments?) during 2002-12. Given … the large differences in labor productivity across the regions of Peru, such convergence has the potential to raise … departments. But because services and agriculture continue to employ the majority of workers in Peru, aggregate convergence is …
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countries covered are Chile, Peru, South Africa, and Turkey, all of which have experience implementing public …
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Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint...
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on food away from home collected as part of the National Household Survey in Peru, shedding light to the extent to which … welfare measures differ depending on whether they properly account for food away from home. Peru is a relevant context, with …
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