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Discrimination in Latin America : an economic perspective / edited by Hugo Ñopo, Alberto Chong, Andrea Moro.
LIBRA F1419.A1 D57 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Latin American development forum
- Latin American development forum series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--Latin America--Economic conditions.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Latin America--Social conditions.
- Discrimination--Economic aspects--Latin America.
- Discrimination.
- Sex discrimination against women--Economic aspects--Latin America.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Race discrimination--Economic aspects--Latin America.
- Race discrimination.
- Race discrimination--Economic aspects.
- Sex discrimination against women--Economic aspects.
- Discrimination--Economic aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Inter-American Development Bank : World Bank, [2010]
- Summary:
- Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty in assessing these divisions from an economic perspective is twofold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior, as opposed to related behavior that might only appear to be discriminatory.
- This book uses a variety of methodological tools-regression analysis, market tests, field experiments, audit studies, and structural methods-to explore the extent to which discrimination against women and demographic minorities is pervasive in Latin America.
- Contents:
- 1 What Do We Know about Discrimination in Latin America? Very Little! / Hugo Ñopo, Alberto Chong, Andrea Moro 1
- 2 Ethnic and Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments Studying the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Urban Peru / Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie, Mx̀imo Torero 13
- 3 Discrimination in the Provision of Social Services to the Poor: A Field Experimental Study / Juan-Camilo Cr̀denas, Natalia Candelo, Alejandro Gaviria, Sandra Polana̕, Rajiv Sethi 37
- 4 Discrimination and Social Networks: Popularity among High School Students in Argentina / Julio Ela̕s, Vc̕tor Ela̕s, Lucas Ronconi 97
- 5 An Experimental Study of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class, and Neighborhood in Chile / David Bravo, Claudia Sanhueza, Sergio Urza͠ 135
- 6 Ability, Schooling Choices, and Gender Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence for Chile / David Bravo, Claudia Sanhueza, Sergio Urza͠ 185
- 7 What Emigration Leaves Behind: The Situation of Emigrants and Their Families in Ecuador / Ximena Soruco, Giorgina Piani, Mx̀imo Rossi 229
- 8 Gender Differentials in Judicial Proceedings: Evidence from Housing-Related Cases in Uruguay / Eduardo Gandelman, Nštor Gandelman, Julie Rothschild 277.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821378359
- 082137835X
- 9780821380826
- 0821380826
- OCLC:
- 297146479
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