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  • Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries (English)

    Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and noncognitive abilities appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6779 Document Date: February 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Behrman,Jere R.,Araujo,Maria Caridad,Azuero,, Rodrigo,Bernal,Raquel,Bravo, David,Lopez Boo,Florencia,Macours,Karen,Marshall, Daniela,Paxson,Christina H.,Vakis,Renos

  • Child health and economic crisis in Peru (English)

    The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77488 Document Date: May 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Paxson,Christina H.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger

  • The World Bank economic review 19 (2) (English)

    The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth by Jonathan Isham, Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett, and Gwen Busby; Attaching Workers...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 42878 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Busby, Gwen,Friebel,Guido,Guriev,Sergei M.,Isham,Jonathan T.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Paxson,Christina H.,Pritchett,Lant Hayward,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Woolcock,Michael

  • Allocation and impact of social funds : spending on school infrastructure in Peru (English)

    Between 1992 and 1998 the Peruvian Social Fund (foncodes) spent about US dollar 570 million funding micro projects throughout the country. Many of these projects involved constructing and renovating school...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77384 Document Date: May 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Paxson,Christina H.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger

  • Is African manufacturing skill-constrained? (English)

    Total factor productivity has been low in most Sub-Saharan Africa. It is often said that the binding constraint on African industrial development is the inadequate supply of technologically capable workers...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2212 Document Date: October 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Author: Pack,Howard,Paxson,Christina H.

  • Inter-industry labor mobility in Taiwan, China (English)

    Do flexible labor markets lubricate growth? Using data from Taiwan, China, to analyze the effects of labor market flexibility, the authors find that: 1) Workers are more likely to move to industries that...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2154 Document Date: August 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Author: Pack,Howard,Paxson,Christina H.

  • Patterns of aging in Thailand and Cote d' Ivoire (English)

    This paper is broadly concerned with the living standards of older people in two contrasting developing countries, Cote d' Ivoire and Thailand. A series of household surveys from these two countries is...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: LSM81 Document Date: July 31, 1991 Disclosure Status: Author: Deaton,Angus S.,Paxson,Christina H.