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Household responses to adverse income shocks in Latin America
(2002-03)
This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by increasing their labor force ...
Commodity Shocks, Factor Intensity and Conflicts in Africa
(Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo". IISEC., 2020-11-20)
Natural resources are often related to conflicts. The Dal Bo & Dal B ´ o´ (2011) theory
states that income shocks affect capital- and labor-intensive sectors differently. Using
sub-national cells covering the African ...
A promising device to save maternal lives associated with obstetric hemorrhage: The non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG)
(BioMed Central, 2015-03)
Preventable maternal mortality associated with obstetric hemorrhage is a human tragedy that mainly occurs in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Massive blood loss leads to hypovolemic shock, which decreases blood flow ...
Income shocks and mental health: evidence from oil royalties
(2020-05-22)
This dissertation examines how revenue shocks in Brazilian municipalities affect the mental health of their population. We exploit a plausible exogeneity regarding oil royalties distribution to establish a causal relationship ...
Análisis de la incidencia de la pandemia Covid-19 en el sector de servicio de transporte urbano de Guayaquil 2020.
(Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, 2021)
Commodity price shocks and civil conflict: Evidence from Colombia
How do income shocks affect armed conflict? Theory suggests two opposite effects. If labour is used to appropriate resources violently, higher wages may lower conflict by reducing labour supplied to appropriation. This is ...
Exogenous shocks, credit reports and access to credit: Evidence from colombian coffee producers
(Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE, 2021)
Credit reporting systems have become a widespread tool to assess the creditworthiness of prospective borrowers. This paper studies the implications for credit access of using them in contexts where exogenous and transitory ...
Common cycles and the importance of transitory shocks to macroeconomic aggregates
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2001-06)
Although there has been substantial research using long-run co-movement (cointegration) restrictions in the empirical macroeconomics literature, little or no work has been done investigating the existence of short-run ...