What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You—Or at Least Mislead You.
The text of the Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize Lecture is presented. The writer discusses human resources, household behavior, and social policies in Latin America. He recounts a number of key moments in his career as an empirical microeconomist involved in Latin America and the Caribbean before pres...
| Publicado en: | Economia Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 1 - 44 |
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Brookings Institution Press
Spring 2009
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