Kangaroo mother care had a protective effect on the volume of brain structures in young adults born preterm
Aim: The protective effects of Kangaroo mother care (KMC) on the neurodevelop-ment of preterm infants are well established, but we do not know whether the ben-efits persist beyond infancy. Our aim was to determine whether providing KMC in infancy affected brain volumes in young adulthood.Method: Standardised cognitive, memory and motor skills tests were used to deter-mine the […]
The daily grind: Cash needs and labor supply
The majority of people in developing countries are self-employed and can therefore set their own work hours. How do self-employed individuals motivate themselves to work hard day after day? We document four facts about the labor supply of Kenyan bicycle-taxi drivers: (1) drivers work more on days with higher cash needs; and (2) the quitting […]
The gradient allocation principle based on the higher moment risk measure
According to the gradient allocation principle based on a positively homogeneous and subadditive risk measure, the capital allocated to a sub-portfolio is the Gâteaux derivative, assuming it exists, of the underlying risk measure at the overall portfolio in the direction of the sub-portfolio. We consider the capital allocation problem based on the higher moment risk […]
Search intensity, search time and prices: evidence from retail diesel markets in France
We study the efect of price variations over time and across space on search intensity and search time by consumers in retail markets for diesel in France. The main contribution of the paper is that existing work in industrial organisation in this area has already studied the efect of such variability on the frst measure […]
Determinantes de la informalidad laboral en las 23 ciudades del país, 2015-2021
Existen diferentes definiciones de informalidad, algunas desde la teoría económica, otras desde la visión laboral, e, incluso, desde la perspectiva jurídica o legal. Sin embargo, todas tiene en común en que se trata de una situación irregular de algunos empleos generados en la economía que no cumplen con las regulaciones establecidas por la ley. Esa […]
Infografía: El método madre canguro y su influencia en el desarrollo congnitivo de nacidos prematuros
Infografía relacionada con el artículo ‘Kangaroo mother care had a protective effect on the volume of brain structures in young adults born preterm’, escrito por Nathalie Charpak, Rejean Tessier, Juan Gabriel Ruiz, Felipe Uriza, José Tiberio Hernandez, Darwin Cortes y Adriana Montealegre-Pomar. Este estudio hace parte del proyecto 2: Hacia mercados laborales inclusivos
Motivating bureaucrats with behavioral insights when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Peru
We study how text messages incorporating behavioral insights can be used as a tool to affect civil servant performance when state capacity is weak. By experimentally varying the content of a messaging campaign targeted to civil servants implementing a school maintenance program in Peru, we test the effectiveness of reminders and treatments making salient either […]
Comparing long-term educational effects of two early childhoodhealth interventions
We compare the educational effects of two medical protocols that mitigate long-term conse-quences of prematurity or low birth weight. The two protocols are Traditional Care (TC), whichuses incubators, and Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) which replaces incubators for 24-hour skin-to-skin contact between newborns and caregivers. We concentrate on educational outcomesaddressing contradictory results in previous contributions. We […]
A Web-Based Approach to Measure Skill Mismatches and Skills Profiles for a Developing Country: The Case of Colombia
Several interdisciplinary studies highlight imperfect information as a possible explanation of skill mismatches, which in turn has implications for unemployment and informality rates. Despite information failures and their consequences, countries like Colombia (where informality and unemployment rates are high) lack a proper labour market information system to identify skill mismatches and employer skill requirements. One […]
El subempleo en Colombia y sus desagregaciones: principales características socioeconómicas asociadas al trabajo de baja calidad
El subempleo es una de las principales condiciones que enmarcan el trabajo de baja calidad o la insatisfacción de los trabajadores con sus condiciones laborales. En Colombia el subempleo ha tenido una histórica alta prevalencia que se complementa con otro problema laboral fundamental para el país, la informalidad. En este artículo se estudian las principales […]