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More to Live for: Health Investment Responses to Expected Retirement Wealth in Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-12-18)A poorly understood but important way that economic conditions influence health is through the incentives that they create for health investments. In this paper, we study how individuals’ current health investments respond ... -
Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-03-05)We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, ... -
Motherhood and the missing women in the labor market
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-09-06)Motherhood currently stands out as a key determinant of the gender gap in labor market outcomes. Studies identifying the effect of children have mostly focused in Europe and the US. These results may not be extrapolated ... -
Moving “away" from Opportunities?: Homeownership and Employment
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 2016-07-10)Homeownership is promoted by the majority of OECD member countries. Nevertheless, the impact that owning a house can have on employment levels is not fully understood. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ... -
Políticas de fomento al emprendimiento dinámico en América Latina: tendencias y desafíos
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)Este trabajo se focaliza en las políticas de fomento al emprendimiento dinámico, es decir de las nuevas empresas que, además de sobrevivir, logran crecer de manera significativa. Este trabajo describe y analiza aquellas ... -
¿Pueden funcionar las comisiones asesoras anticorrupción? El caso dela Comisión Engel en Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-10-17)Adoptar reformas anti-corrupción efectivas alteran el status-quo y afectan los intereses de quienes tienen a su cargo la decisión de formularlas o implementarlas. Las Comisiones Asesoras Anticorrupción (CAA) son una ... -
Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-06)We study the equilibrium effects of quality regulation on market outcomes by exploiting the staggered phase-in of bioequivalence requirements for generic drugs in Chile. While the objective of the regulation was to increase ... -
Regional Integration and the Opportunities Offered by Global Value Chains: the Case of the Pacific Alliance
(2024-04-24)Disruptions in the global value chains (GVCs) caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and other events that had impacted geopolitical dynamics since 2018 fueled expectations worldwide to reorganize the GVCs. Historically, Latin ... -
State formation, tax structures and mineral abundance Chile and Peru, 1850-1930s
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)The paper assesses the impact of natural resource abundance on state formation by looking at how tax structures responded to booming periods in the early ages of the Chilean and Peruvian republic, 1850-1930s. The paper ... -
Surnames and Social Rank: Long-term Traits of Social Mobility in Colombia and Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-16)In the last two years, Colombia and Chile have witnessed strong social protests, characterized by slogans against inequality and the lack of social mobility. In this study we propose a comparative study on social mobility ... -
The distortionary effect of size and factor dependent policies: The role of factor substitutability in measuring the impact of a child-care subsidy policy in Chile
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-04-04)In an effort to increase female labor participation in Chile, firms with more than 19 women must pay for childcare for the children of their female employees. We evaluate the effects of such policy using a model that ... -
The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-22)This paper studies the impact of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity in the context of public school teachers in Chile. We take advantage of a law that required education administrators ... -
The non-green effects of “going green”: Local environmental and economic consequences of lithium extraction in Chile
(CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe; Distrito Capital, 2023-11-28)In this paper, we analyze the local environmental and economic impacts of lithium extraction in the Atacama Salt Flat (ASF) inChile. We use satellite data to estimate the effects on vegetation at a resolution of 30m × 30m ... -
Urban Transit Infrastructure: Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Power
(2022-09)Does transit infrastructure reduce labor market power? This paper estimates the effects of a large subway expansion on local labor market outcomes in Santiago, Chile. Using a linked employer-employee dataset with spatial ... -
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 ...