Documents et rapports
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Why did poverty decline in India? : a nonparametric decomposition exercise (anglais)
This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 and 2012. The analysis employs a nonparametric decomposition method that measures the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125506 Date du document: 1 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balcázar,Carlos Felipe,Desai,Sonal,Murgai,Rinku,Narayan,Ambar
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Born with a silver spoon : inequality in educational achievement across the World (anglais)
This paper assesses inequality of opportunity in educational achievement using the Human Opportunity Index methodology on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment. The findings suggest...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125432 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balcázar,Carlos Felipe,Narayan,Ambar,Tiwari,Sailesh
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Long-run effects of democracy on income inequality : evidence from repeated cross-sections (anglais)
This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995—2009...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125433 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balcázar,Carlos Felipe
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Broken gears : the value added of higher education on teachers’ academic achievement (anglais)
Good teachers are essential for high-quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers' skills formation during college. By combining two standardized tests for Colombian students, one...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125526 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balcázar,Carlos Felipe,Ñopo,Hugo