Browsing 06. Documentos de trabajo by Title
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Inequality, Crime, and the Long Run Legacy of Slavery
(CAF; Bogotá, 2016-12-25)This paper investigates the relationship between economic inequality and crime in Colombian municipalities. Following recent scholarly research that suggests that the legacy of slavery is largely manifest in persistent ... -
Informality and Productivity: The Role of Unemployment Insurance Schemes
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-02-22)We study the design of optimal unemployment protection schemes to evaluate its impact on labor markets, welfare and productivity. We consider a life-cycle economies with formal and informal labor markets, unobservable ... -
Information sharing and access to finance of SMEs: cross country evidence from survey data
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)Using a survey of firms in 61 countries around the world (WBES) and econometric techniques that allow us to deal with observed and unobserved country specific components as well as with partial endogeneity, we explore the ... -
Infraestructura y aspectos distributivos en la tarificación de los servicios públicos: ámbito y posibilidades de la tarifa social en la Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)El caso argentino presenta particularidades que sugieren y motivan una estrategia de análisis y evaluación de la tarifa social en los sectores de infraestructura. Por un lado, la ausencia de mecanismos de tarifa social (en ... -
Iniciativa CAF de bosques
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)En este documento de trabajo CAF presenta un panorama y evaluación de la situación de los bosques de América Latina. Asimismo expone las líneas de acción que sigue en este tema a través de su programa BioCAF. CAF en su ... -
Innovación en energía limpia en América Latina
(Diálogo Interamericano; CAF; Washington D.C., 2016-03-01)La investigación y comercialización de energías limpias se ha incrementado rápidamente durante la última década. La cantidad anual de patentes en tecnología limpia se ha más que triplicado entre el 2000 y el 2014, mientras ... -
Input-output linkages and sector-specific distortions in the Latin American development problem
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 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 ... -
Inside the revolving door: campaign finance, lobbying meetings and public contracts. An investigation for Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-21)This paper explores the relationship between political influence activities by interest groups and benefits obtained in the form of public contracts. We propose an electoral competition model where interest groups make ... -
Institutions, sectorial dynamics and foreign direct investment in Latin America: a new emerging reality
(CAF; Caracas, 2013)Despite uncertainties in the global economy, Latin American countries have attracted a significant amount of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in recent years. Investing in Latin America is now a central pillar of many ... -
Integración regional, conectividad física y cadenas globales de valor
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-07-13)La crisis sanitaria desatada por la irrupción del COVID-19 ha puesto en riesgo los avances logrados en materia económica y social en América Latina. La baja integración comercial y productiva entre los países de la región ... -
Integração das Fontes Renováveis Intermitentes na América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)Em vários países, a política energética é crescentemente conduzida para incrementar a participação de fontes renováveis de energia na geração de eletricidade, em função da necessidade de aumentar a segurança do abastecimento, ... -
Integração das Fontes Renováveis Intermitentes na América Latina: Brasil, Chile e Uruguai
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)Em vários países, a política energética é crescentemente conduzida para incrementar a participação de fontes renováveis de energia na geração de eletricidade, em função da necessidade de aumentar a segurança do abastecimento, ... -
Integrating Early-life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children´s Education
(CAF; Colombia, 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) ... -
Inter-jurisdictional coordination in the management of natural resources: evidence from water basin committees in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Decentralized management of public goods creates the potential for spillovers across jurisdictions. These spillovers may be particularly large in the case of river management where the river has little value to upstream ... -
Intergenerational earnings mobility and macroeconomic shocks: Evidence based on administrative records
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-04-26)This paper provides novel evidence on trends in intergenerational earnings mobility in a developing country and explores some transmission mechanisms associated with the characteristics of the labor market. Using a novel ... -
Intergenerational mobility in education in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-15)This document provides a comprehensive analysis of intergenerational mobility in Latin America, focusing on the association between parental education and the education of their children. It updates the estimates provided ... -
Intergenerational transmission of teen childbearing in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-14)Using DHS data for six Latin American countries, we estimate the relation between a mother’s teenage childbearing status and that of her daughter. Restricting the estimating sample to mother-daughter matches in the data ... -
Internet and Labor Income: Places and Activities in Colombia
(CAF; Bogotá, 2016-12-21)Despite the literature in the richest countries about the positive correlation between Internet and income, there is still an open question about the utility of this technology the developing world. This paper uses Propensity ... -
Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-07-11)We study how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower prefer-ential margins when the bloc takes ... -
Job training, selection and self discovery
(CAF; Caracas, 2013)We randomly assign 1250 unemployed men and women to be invited once or twice to a specific-skills training program offered by a large multinational firm as part of its social responsibility efforts. Individuals with the ...