Documents et rapports
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Hit and run? Income shocks and school dropouts in Latin America (anglais)
How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125671 Date du document: 1 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cerutti,Paula Maria,Crivellaro, Elena,Reyes, Germán,Sousa,Liliana Do Couto
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Winners never quit, quitters never grow : using text mining to measure policy volatility and its linkwith long-term growth in Latin America (anglais)
Although there is wide recognition of the negative consequences of policy volatility for countries’ long-term economic growth, there is limited empirical work on this subject. One of the reasons is the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125618 Date du document: 1 janvier 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Calvo-González, Oscar,Eizmendi Larrinaga,Axel,Reyes, Germán
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The changing way governments talk about poverty and inequality : evidence from two centuries of Latin American presidential speeches (anglais)
This study uses text mining techniques on almost 900 presidential ‘state-of-the-union’, type speeches from 10 Latin American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents a sharp increase in recent...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125619 Date du document: 1 janvier 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Calvo-González, Oscar,Eizmendi Larrinaga,Axel,Reyes, Germán