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Adolescent pregnancy is a latent event in the world, especially in developing countries, and it has consequences of great importance for the young women who face it. This work seeks to demonstrate these consequences in the career of Bolivian women who, although they are not between 15 and 19...
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The Bolivian monthly index of economic activity along with ARMA models are used in an attempt to graph and measure the impact of Covid's pandemic on the Bolivian economy. The accumulated difference between the observed and counterfactual values show an overall 12.6% loss of economic activity in...
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The economic literature that studies the salary gaps between men and women produced by children. However, there may … also be wage gaps between women with children and women without children, which is known as a motherhood wage penalty and … penalty and when correcting for selection bias it persists. When evaluating by number of children, it is observed that …
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In Mexico, wages have stagnated and profits have increased since 1980. This paper analyzes the causes of this performance both at an aggregate and sectorial level. Although in theory trade liberalization should have led to increased wages and a reduction of profits, an unlimited supply of labor...
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This study analyzes the effect that the availability of resources and remittances have on household healthcare expenditure, as well as its intra-household allocation, a topic that has barely been explored in the case of Mexico. Using a Tobit model and GLS, we find that health is a luxury good,...
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La baja participación de los hogares más vulnerables en los servicios públicos sigue siendo uno de los grandes desafíos para el diseño e implementación de políticas. Existe una vasta literatura documentando los beneficios de la educación inicial para cerrar inequidades y brechas en el...
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En este documento se presentan los principales resultados de la evaluación de impacto del programa Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar del ICBF. Durante el año 2007 el equipo de la Universidad de los Andes y PROFAMILIA recolectó información sobre 28,000 niños entre participantes y potenciales...
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