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Objective. To assess non-participation bias in a survey ofmale sexual behavior. Material and methods. A householdsurvey was carried out in 1992-1993 using a probabilitysampling frame in Mexico City. Demographic variables...

The results of a population based survey, carried on in a low income area of Mexico City,with a total population of 15 532 inhabitants, are presented. From these, 3 505 individuals were considered eligible (35-64) years ...

Este trabajo documenta el impacto de las recientes crisis en Argentina sobre diferentes aspectos de la pobreza, con particular atención en la crisis económica de 2002. Discutimos la metodología de medición de pobreza...

Using urban household surveys, we constructed a panel dataset to study the effects of the Argentine macroeconomic crisis of 1999-2002 with the aim of (1) identifying the most vulnerable households, (2) investigating whet...

En este trabajo se estudia como la política fiscal y los costos de transporte determinan la distribución geográfica de los trabajadores y las familias. Se utiliza un modelo simple de dos regiones con costos de transpo...

This paper develops direct tests for evaluating the performance of two types of emergency employment programs put in place in Chile since 1999. Our results suggest: First, decentralized and market-driven programs (subsid...

This paper presents a model designed to study the dynamic response of the economy under a fixed peg to the dollar to an international (and exogenous) real appreciation of the dollar, when there is wage and price stickine...

Economic reforms involving the agricultural sector, such as those being proposed in the WTO Doha Round negotiations, will affect household behavior in developing countries. This paper proposes an empirical methodology to...

Our study critically surveys financial inclusion in Latin American and Caribbean countries, gauging access to both credit and deposit accounts by poor households. Our review confirms some pieces of conventional wisdom in...

At the end of 2001, Argentina suffered one of its worst economic crises in memory. When presented with lower incomes, reduced employment, and other economic shocks, households have responded by adjusting their consumer b...

La gran mayoría de los estudios del ingreso no toman en cuenta la renta implícita que obtienen los hogares que viven en una casa propia. Esta omisión puede introducir un potencial sesgo de gran magnitud en medidas de ...

Este artículo investiga la dinámica de ingresos familiares en el corto plazo durante los años 90. La educación universitaria, como forma de protección contra caídas de ingresos, ciertos rangos demográficos asociad...

Este trabajo utiliza por primera vez información de encuestas de hogares para América Latina para investigar el grado y los efectos del acceso al crédito en el ingreso y la educación en los hogares pobres. Con este p...

Poverty still is one of the central problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. As measured by international poverty lines, approximately one out of every five people in the region is poor. Consequently, the elimination...

Working on a sample of OECD countries spanning the period 1970-2003, this paper contributes to the Feldstein-Horioka literature by making three main innovations: (1) It estimates, for the first time, regressions at the i...

Este trabajo investiga el impacto de exportaciones no tradicionales en familias rurales en Zambia. La identificación y estimación de los efectos de largo plazo es lo que distingue a este trabajo de la literatura actual...

This paper investigates the impacts of non-traditional exports on household outcomes in rural Zambia. Traditionally, Zambia has been an exporter of copper and only recently has the increase in agricultural exports been o...

This paper studies the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the labor supply of adults in developing countries. The document builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs implemented in rural area...

Preface to the Enlarged Edition Introduction 1. Single-Person Households 2. Division of Labor in Households and Families Supplement: Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 3. Polygamy and Monogamy in Mar...

Abstract A number of panel unit root tests that allow for cross‐section dependence have been proposed in the literature that use orthogonalization type procedures to asymptotically eliminate the cross‐dependence of t...

Abstract The mark of a capitalistic society is that resources are owned and allocated by such nongovernmental organizations as firms, households, and markets. Resource owners increase productivity through cooperative spe...