UID:
edocfu_9958061847902883
Format:
xxv, 308 pages :
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illustrations, maps ;
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23 cm.
ISBN:
1-282-45078-6
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9786612450785
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0-8213-8082-6
Series Statement:
Latin American development forum series
Content:
Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: 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 w
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 What Do We Know about Discrimination in Latin America? Very Little!; 2 Ethnic and Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments Studying the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Urban Peru; Figures; Tables; 3 Discrimination in the Provision of Social Services to the Poor: A Field Experimental Study; 4 Discrimination and Social Networks: Popularity among High School Students in Argentina; 5 An Experimental Study of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class, and Neighborhood in Chile
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6 Ability, Schooling Choices, and Gender Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence for Chile7 What Emigration Leaves Behind: The Situation of Emigrants and Their Families in Ecuador; 8 Gender Differentials in Judicial Proceedings: Evidence from Housing-Related Cases in Uruguay; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-7835-X
Language:
English
