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El tamaño del estado y su impacto redistributivo en América Latina
(CAF, 2011)
Este ensayo analiza la evolución del gasto público en América Latina a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas, y ofrece como referencia una perspectiva de más larga duración cuando la disponibilidad de estadísticas lo permite. ...
Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning for Automatic Slum Identification from VHE Imagery
(CAF, 2016-11-23)
Slum identification in urban settlements is a crucial step in the process of formulation of propoor policies. However, the use of conventional methods for slums detection such as field surveys may result time consuming and ...
Domestic Violence and Divorce Law: When Divorce Threats Become Credible
(CAF, 2014-10-01)
This paper investigates whether lowering the cost of divorce can reduce domestic violence. The cost of divorce influences the bargaining position of spouses, and thus, their behavior within the marriage. This study takes ...
En busca de lo inobservable: incorporando habilidades en un modelo à la Mincer
(CAF, 2015-07)
En este trabajo se busca replicar el modelo básico de Jacob Mincer (1974), con el objeto de encontrar un mejor estimador del efecto de la educación sobre los ingresos, controlando no solo por variables observables sino ...
Integrating Early-life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children´s Education
(CAF, 2016-10-04)
This study investigates how early-life conditions interact with subsequent human capital investments to influence future educational outcomes. To provide causal evidence, we exploit two sources of exogenous variation: i) ...
Decisiones laborales en América Latina: el caso de los emprendedores
(CAF, 2012)
Los países de América Latina han experimentado fuertes transformaciones en sus mercados laborales, las cuales han tenido consecuencias en términos sociales y productivos. Analizar al mercado laboral, y en particular a las ...
Flexibility matters: do more rigid loan contracts reduce demand for microfinance?
(CAF, 2010)
Despite the rapid expansion of microfinance services in the past several decades, the low use of formal credit exhibited by poor households, the high dropout rates experienced by many microfinance institutions, and the ...
The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: a synthesis of results
(CAF, 2012)
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in ...
What is the Role of Urban Growth on Inequality, and Segregation? The Case of Urban Argentina´s Urban Agglomerations
(CAF, 2016-11)
We analyze the relationship between urban sprawl and changing patterns of inequality and segregation in metropolitan areas of Argentina. The existing literature has endeavored to study the determinants of the expansion of ...
El desafío del desarrollo de habilidades en América Latina. Un diagnóstico de los problemas y soluciones de política pública
(Diálogo Interamericano, Mathematica Policy Research, CAF, 2016-10-31)
La historia de América Latina se ha caracterizado por sus fluctuantes tasas de crecimiento económico, el desarrollo insuficiente del capital humano y altos niveles de desigualdad de ingresos. El final del ciclo
de una ...