• Determinants of Slum Formation: The Role of Local Politics and Policies 

      Alves, Guillermo (CAF; Caracas, 2018-01)
      One-third of the developing world’s population lives in urban slums and the absolute number of slum residents grew from 650 million in 1990 to 863 million in 2012. Although negative impacts of slum living conditions on ...
    • Difference-in-Differences in Equilibrium: Evidence from Placed-Based Policies 

      Alves, Guillermo; Burton, William H.; Fleitas, Sebastián (CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe; Distrito Capital, 2023-12-26)
      Violations of the stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA) are a common threat to identification of the effects of policies causing the resorting of agents between treated and untreated groups. We show that in such ...
    • Distribución espacial del empleo formal en la ciudad autónoma de buenos aires: un diagnóstico a partir de registros administrativos 

      Alves, Guillermo; Berniell, Lucila; Castillo. V.; de la Mata, Dolores; Fernandez, D.; Juncosa, C.; Rotondo, S. (CAF; Caracas, 2018-12-01)
      A partir de información geográfica detallada del universo de establecimientos productivos y del empleo registrado en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires este trabajo documenta la localización del empleo en la ciudad en el ...
    • Lasting Scars: The Unequal Impacts of Unemployment in Latin America 

      Alves, Guillermo; Varvasino, Joaquín (2022-12-13)
      We study the impact of the unemployment rate at the time of labor market entrance on the labor outcomes of individuals of different social origin in 18 Latin American countries. Higher unemployment increases the probability ...
    • Medición de las necesidades refrigeración y calefacción en América Latina y el Caribe 

      Alves, Guillermo; Lurgo, Facundo (2023-12-20)
      Las temperaturas extremas afectan negativamente el aprendizaje, la productividad y la salud. La exposición de las poblaciones a las mismas adquiere especial relevancia debido al cambio climático. El presente trabajo presenta ...
    • See it to believe it. Experimental evidence on status consumption among the youth. 

      Alves, Guillermo; Leites, Martín; Salas, Gonzalo (CAF; Caracas, 2022-09-27)
      We ran a field experiment in which a 20-year-old chooses be-tween a socially visible and a non-socially visible good after a friend randomly received one of these goods or an unknown good. We find no differences in choices ...
    • Slum Growth in Brazilian Cities 

      Alves, Guillermo (CAF; Caracas, 2016-10-10)
      I study slum growth in contemporary urbanization processes by estimating a spatial equilibrium model with houses with and without basic water and sanitation services in Brazilian cities between 1991 and 2010. Slum growth ...
    • The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers 

      Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdin, Gabriel; Chávez, Mariana; Dean, Andrés (CAF; Caracas, 2019-05-02)
      A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers’ behavioural ...
    • The Political Economy of Slum Growth: Evidence from Brazil 

      Alves, Guillermo (2023)
      One-fourth of the world’s urban population lives in slums and the number of slum residents grew from 650 million in 1990 to 1 billion in 2018. Existing explanations for slum growth focus on rural-urban migration and poverty. ...