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Waits and Delays in Road Freight Transport
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-05-06)This paper studies waits and delays in the trucking industry of a developing country: Colombia. We follow 186,000 longhaul trips over 926 routes between 2015 and 2019, using GPS devices located in trucks. We find that ... -
Wealth in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-05-16)This paper presents harmonized indicators for household wealth, its components, and its determinants (including intergenerational mobility) in four Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay), using Spain ... -
What a difference a full day makes: Evidence from new schools in Fortaleza
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-03-18)Although longer school days are in increasing supply, a lack of consensus about their effectiveness persists. Motivated by this gap, this paper studies the effect of enrolling in a new set of full-time secondary schools ... -
What do non-renewable natural resource rich countries do with their rents?
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)This paper examines three sets of questions related to the use of non-renewable natural resource rents: (1) To what extent countries rich in non-renewable natural resources use such rents to increase present consumption ... -
What explains output recoveries in developing and emerging market economies after the global financial crisis?
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-09-26)This paper presents a systematic assessment of the macroeconomic factors associated with differences in GDP dynamics in emerging markets in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. We implement a Bayesian Model ... -
What is the Role of Urban Growth on Inequality, and Segregation? The Case of Urban Argentina´s Urban Agglomerations
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 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 ... -
Who attract the public sector compensation schemes?: evidence from Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-22)Compensation schemes tend to differ markedly between public and private sector jobs, which can affect the relative preferences of potential employees towards those jobs. We explore this through two informational experiments ... -
Who benefits when inertia is reduced? Competition, quality and returns to skill in health care markets
(CAF; Caracas, 2018)Increased competition may lead to incentives for firms to increase quality by incorporating higher quality inputs. This is particularly relevant in health care markets, since the supply of high quality physicians is ... -
Will you marry me, later? Age-of-marriage laws and child marriage in Mexico
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-11-03)We provide empirical evidence on the impact of raising the minimum age of marriage to 18 years old on child marriage, early motherhood, and school enrollment in Mexico. Using a difference-in-differences model that takes ... -
Workfare and crime: evidence for Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)This paper investigates the effect of introducing a massive workfare program on property crimes. In order to circumvent the endogeneity problem common to joint factors determining crime and demand for workfare we make use ... -
Working mothers and intergenerational mobility: evidence from sibling schooling gaps in Venezuela
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)This paper documents the change in intergenerational mobility over the 35 year period between 1975 and 2010 in Venezuela and finds that equality of opportunities increased significantly from the mid 1970's until around ... -
Young businesses, entrepreneurship, and the dynamics of employment and ouput in Colombia´s manufacturing industry
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)In this paper, we study the characteristics and growth dynamics of young businesses, and the contribution of these businesses to aggregate growth, in a developing economy: Colombia. Our study covers the 17 years between ...
