Omar Arias

World Bank

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Washington, DC 20433

United States

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1.

Individual Heterogeneity in the Returns to Schooling: Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression Using Twins Data

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Oct 2000
Omar Arias, Kevin F. Hallock and Walter Sosa-Escudero
World Bank, Cornell University and Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) - Faculty of Economics
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returns to education, human capital, heterogeneity, quantile treatment effects, instrumental variables

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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil

International Journal of Manpower, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Mar 2004
Omar Arias, Gustavo Yamada and Luis R. Tejerina
World Bank, Universidad del Pacifico, Peru - Department of Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
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Discrimination, wage inequality, returns to education, Quantile Regressions, Brazil

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Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3916
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 19 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
Omar Arias and Melanie Khamis
World Bank and IZA Institute of Labor Economics
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marginal treatment effects, occupational choice, segmentation, earnings, comparative advantage, informality, labor markets

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Pending Issues in Protection, Productivity Growth, and Poverty Reduction

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3799
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Jan 2006
Omar Arias, Andreas Blom, Mariano Bosch Mossi, Wendy Cunningham, Ariel Fiszbein, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, William F. Maloney, Jaime Saavedra, Carolina Sánchez-Páramo, Mauricio Santamaria and Lucas Siga
World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank - Human Development Network, Lead Economist, World Bank - Poverty and Economic Management Unit, GRADE, World Bank, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Department of Economics, University of Essex
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Are Men Benefiting from the New Economy? Male Economic Marginalization in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Omar Arias
World Bank
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Dynamic Rates of Return to Education in the U.S.

Economics of Education Review (EER), Vol. 20, No. 1, 2000
Posted: 01 Apr 2000
Omar Arias and Walter W. McMahon
World Bank and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Human Capital Formation, Education economics, Labor Economics