Discrimination in Latin America : An Economic Perspective.
Title:
Discrimination in Latin America : An Economic Perspective.
Author:
Bank, World.
ISBN:
9780821380826
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Series:
Latin American Development Forum
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Latin American Development Forum Series -- Titles in the Latin American Development Forum Series -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 What Do We Know about Discrimination in Latin America? Very Little! -- Chapter 2 Ethnic and Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments Studying the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Urban Peru -- Chapter 3 Discrimination in the Provision of Social Services to the Poor: A Field Experimental Study -- Chapter 4 Discrimination and Social Networks: Popularity among High School Students in Argentina -- Chapter 5 An Experimental Study of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class, and Neighborhood in Chile -- Chapter 6 Ability, Schooling Choices, and Gender Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence for Chile -- Chapter 7 What Emigration Leaves Behind: The Situation of Emigrants and Their Families in Ecuador -- Chapter 8 Gender Differentials in Judicial Proceedings: Evidence from Housing-Related Cases in Uruguay -- Index -- Back cover.
Abstract:
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 which discrimination against women and demographic minorities is pervasive in Latin America.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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