LEADER 03820nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910458190803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-45078-6 010 $a9786612450785 010 $a0-8213-8082-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000008272 035 $a(EBL)476210 035 $a(OCoLC)536301157 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000333519 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12068661 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333519 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10357585 035 $a(PQKB)10918536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476210 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476210 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10356790 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245078 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000008272 100 $a20090910d2010 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDiscrimination in Latin America$b[electronic resource] $ean economic perspective /$fedited by Hugo N?opo, Alberto Chong, Andrea Moro 210 $aWashington, DC $cInter-American Development Bank $cWorld Bank$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 225 1 $aLatin American development forum series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8213-7835-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a6 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 330 $aLatin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior as opposed to related behavior that might only appear to be discriminatory.This book uses a variety of methodological tools -- regression analysis, market tests, field experiments, audit studies, and structural methods -- to explore the extent to w 410 0$aLatin American development forum. 606 $aMinorities$zLatin America$xEconomic conditions 606 $aMinorities$zLatin America$xSocial conditions 606 $aDiscrimination$xEconomic aspects$zLatin America 606 $aSex discrimination against women$xEconomic aspects$zLatin America 606 $aRace discrimination$xEconomic aspects$zLatin America 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMinorities$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aMinorities$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aDiscrimination$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aSex discrimination against women$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aRace discrimination$xEconomic aspects 676 $a305.80098 701 $aN?opo$b Hugo$0882954 701 $aChong$b Alberto$0309791 701 $aMoro$b Andrea$f1967-$0166961 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458190803321 996 $aDiscrimination in Latin America$92094780 997 $aUNINA