04087oam 22008055 450 991079113330332120230207232552.01-282-45078-697866124507850-8213-8082-610.1596/978-0-8213-7835-9(CKB)2560000000008272(EBL)476210(OCoLC)536301157(SSID)ssj0000333519(PQKBManifestationID)12068661(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333519(PQKBWorkID)10357585(PQKB)10918536(MiAaPQ)EBC476210(Au-PeEL)EBL476210(CaPaEBR)ebr10356790(CaONFJC)MIL245078(The World Bank)ocn297146479(US-djbf)15900684(EXLCZ)99256000000000827220090910d2010 uf 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDiscrimination in Latin America : an economic perspective /edited by Hugo Nopo, Alberto Chong, Andrea MoroWashington, DC :Inter-American Development Bank :World Bank,[2010]copyright 2010.xxv, 308 pages illustrations, maps ;23 cmLatin American development forum seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8213-7835-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Chile6 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; IndexLatin 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 wLatin American development forum.World Bank e-Library.MinoritiesLatin AmericaEconomic conditionsMinoritiesLatin AmericaSocial conditionsDiscriminationEconomic aspectsLatin AmericaSex discrimination against womenEconomic aspectsLatin AmericaRace discriminationEconomic aspectsLatin AmericaMinoritiesEconomic conditions.MinoritiesSocial conditions.DiscriminationEconomic aspectsSex discrimination against womenEconomic aspectsRace discriminationEconomic aspects305.80098Ñopo Hugo1085863Chong Alberto309791Moro Andrea1967-166961DLCDLCBTCTAYDXCPUKMC#PDLCBOOK9910791133303321Discrimination in Latin America3769786UNINA