Documentos e Relatórios
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Gender bias in Intrahousehold allocation : evidence from an unintentional experiment (Inglês)
We use data from a Brazilian social program to investigate the existence of gender bias in intrahousehold allocations of resources. The program makes cash transfers to mothers and pregnant women in poor...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94662 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Braido, Luis H.,Olinto,Pedro,Perrone, Helena
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Weakly relative poverty (Inglês)
Prevailing measures of relative poverty are unchanged when all incomes grow or contract by the same proportion. This property stems from seemingly implausible assumptions about the disutility of relative...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94669 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chen,Shaohua,Ravallion,Martin
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Multilateral debt relief through the eyes of financial markets (Inglês)
This paper conducts an event study of the impact of multilateral debt relief initiatives announcements on the stock prices of South African companies with subsidiaries in countries benefited by these initiatives...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94668 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique
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Global inequality of opportunity : how much of our income is determined by where we live? (Inglês)
Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics over which they have (almost) no control: country of residence and income distribution within that country. Assume further that...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94672 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Milanovic,Branko L.
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Aggregate income shocks and infant mortality in the developing world (Inglês)
Health and income are strongly correlated both within and across countries, yet the extent to which improvements in income have a causal effect on health status remains controversial. The authors investigate...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94667 Data do documento: 1 de agosto de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Baird,Sarah Jane,Friedman,Jed,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Migration and economic mobility in Tanzania : evidence from a tracking survey (Inglês)
This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using a thirteen year panel survey, we find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94670 Data do documento: 1 de agosto de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Dercon,Stefan,De Weerdt,Joachim
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Export diversification : what’s behind the hump? (Inglês)
The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 156 countries over 19 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4,991...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94665 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cadot,Olivier,Carrere,Celine,Strauss-Kahn,Vanessa
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License to sell : the effect of business administration reform on entrepreneurial activity in Mexico (Inglês)
This paper estimates the economic effects of a recent reform that simplified business entry regulation in Mexico. The reform was introduced in different municipalities at different points in time. Using...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94666 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bruhn,Miriam
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Good, bad, and ugly colonial activities : do they matter for economic development? (Inglês)
Levels of development vary widely within countries in the Americas. We argue that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era, when colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 94663 Data do documento: 29 de setembro de 2010 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bruhn,Miriam,Gallego,Francisco Antonio
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The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery (Inglês)
We use a migration lottery program to overcome the double selectivity problems posed by migration. We compare a wide range of outcomes for the remaining household members of Tongan emigrants with those...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 94664 Data do documento: 30 de março de 2010 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Gibson,John David,Mckenzie,David J.,Stillman,Steven Eric
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Factor inputs and Japanese manufacturing trade structure (Inglês)
The Japanese international trade structure in manufactured goods has been analyzed using cross-section regression analysis in which labor, capital, human capital, and energy are regressed on Japanese net...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: REP299 Data do documento: 30 de novembro de 1983 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Urata,Shujiro
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Cross country demand and savings patterns (Inglês)
Cross country demand and savings patterns are investigated in an application of the extended linear expenditure system (ELES). By fitting the ELES model to a short time series for 14 countries, using an...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: REP31 Data do documento: 31 de agosto de 1975 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: LLUCH, C.,WILLIAMS, R.