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La violencia de género en América Latina: diagnóstico, determinantes y opciones de política
(2018-01-24)
En los últimos años, se ha generado una demanda desde la sociedad civil y los gobiernos de América Latina para identificar los determinantes y las opciones de políticas que permitan reducir la violencia contra la mujer. ...
Determinants of Slum Formation: The Role of Local Politics and Policies
(CAF, 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 ...
Occupational Choice and Investments in Human Capital in Informal Economies
(CAF, 2017-12-12)
Countries di er greatly in their levels of schooling and also in their rates of entrepreneurship. At the same time, the share of the so-called \shadow economy" -informal economic activities- is very large in some countries ...
The impact of the minimum wage on the destruction and creation of products
(CAF, 2017-12-06)
We study the impact of changes in the legal minimum wage on the creation and destruction of products at the firm level. This can be a relevant way for increasing firm productivity and for explaining why the raises in the ...
Starting on the right track? The effects of rst job experience on short and long term labor market outcomes
(CAF, 2017-12-04)
For young job seekers barriers to labor market entry are high, especially in developing countries were information frictions are large. Can first job experience impact such barriers and have perdurable effects? This paper ...
Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
(CAF, 2017-11-15)
Customs are often prone to corruption because it concentrates a lot of discretionary power in the hand of custom agents who take decisions with high economic stakes for the firms, providing an opportunity for custom agents ...
Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
(CAF, 2017-11-08)
In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ...
Input-output linkages and sector-specific distortions in the Latin American development problem
(CAF, 2017-11-03)
In this paper, I analyze the Latin American development problem using a model with input-output linkages, sectorial productivity gaps, and sector-specific distortions. I provide a characterization of the sectorial linkages ...
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment in Brazil
(CAF, 2017-10-16)
During the economic boom of the early 2000s, most Latin American countries increased their minimum wages. In Brazil, the real minimum wage increased by upwards of 60 percent from 2003 through 2012. In this paper, we take ...
The Causes and Consequences of the Spatial Organization of Agriculture in Brazil
(CAF, 2017-10-10)
Why are there vast differences in agricultural activity across space? How do these differences shape the aggregate impact of agricultural shocks? To address these questions, I build a quantitative general equilibrium model ...