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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791133303321

Titolo

Discrimination in Latin America : : an economic perspective / / edited by Hugo Nopo, Alberto Chong, Andrea Moro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : Inter-American Development Bank : , : World Bank, , [2010]

copyright 2010

ISBN

1-282-45078-6

9786612450785

0-8213-8082-6

Descrizione fisica

xxv, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 23 cm

Collana

Latin American development forum series

Altri autori (Persone)

NĖƒopoHugo

ChongAlberto

MoroAndrea <1967->

Disciplina

305.80098

Soggetti

Minorities - Latin America - Economic conditions

Minorities - Latin America - Social conditions

Discrimination - Economic aspects - Latin America

Sex discrimination against women - Economic aspects - Latin America

Race discrimination - Economic aspects - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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