Listar 06. Documentos de trabajo por título
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Maternidad y trabajo flexible en América Latina
(Caracas, 2021-11-11)Esta infografía tiene como objetivo mostrar las brechas de género y maternidad en la región, así como también los efectos de la maternidad en el empleo en algunos países de América Latina. -
Measuring Imperfect Competition in Product and Labor Markets. An Empirical Analysis using Firm-level Production Data
(CAF; California, 2018-01)In this paper, we develop a simple theoretical model that allows us to disentangle empirically the extent of imperfect competition in product and labor markets using plant-level production data. The model assumes ... -
Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-04)We provide a novel approach to estimate the deadweight loss of congestion. We implement it for road travel in the city of Bogotá using information from a travel survey and counterfactual travel data generated from Google ... -
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-09-20)This paper uses high-resolution images of nighttime luminosity to estimate a globally comparable measure of the size of metropolitan areas around the world for the years 2000 and 2010. We apply recently-proposed methodologies ... -
Mecanismo para a Integração das Energias Renováveis Intermitentes: Armazenamento
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)Os combustíveis fósseis possuem duas características importantes, além de serem fontes de alta concentração energética: eles podem ser armazenados até o momento em que seu uso for necessário, e podem ser transportados para ... -
Mecanismo para a Integração das Energias Renováveis Intermitentes: Redes Elétricas Inteligentes/Respostas pelo Lado da Demanda
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)a redução das emissões estão impulsionando os governos a investir no uso de energias renováveis para geração de eletricidade. Apesar dos importantes benefícios oferecidos pela geração a partir de fontes renováveis, a ... -
Medición de las necesidades refrigeración y calefacción en América Latina y el Caribe
(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 ... -
Medición de los determinantes de la productividad en Ciudades de América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-14)El presente documento desarrolla un conjunto de indicadores para medir los determinantes de la productividad en las ciudades de América Latina. Su objetivo es caracterizar los determinantes que pueden ser intervenidos desde ... -
Medición de los niveles de productividad de las ciudades en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)Este documento presenta datos sobre productividad a nivel de ciudad para 279 ciudades de 12 países de América Latina. Para esto se utilizan los datos de salario horario de las encuestas de hogares oficiales de los países. ... -
Mejorar la experiencia ciudadana en trámites digitales como estrategia para aumentar su demanda
(CAF; Caracas, 2023-06)Mejorar la experiencia ciudadana en trámites digitales es clave para aumentar su demanda en Colombia. La investigación realizada demuestra que es necesario considerar los desafíos de los diferentes grupos poblacionales y ... -
Mexico: the story and lessons behind Latin America’s first AI strategy
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-06-04)Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive technologies of our time and that is influencing increasingly more aspects of our social, economic, and private lives. Given its invisible influence on human actions ... -
Mi Colombia digital. Herramienta de transformación digital del Estado colombiano desde las regiones
(CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, 2024-01-26)La transformación digital del gobierno de un país busca mejorar la calidad de vida de sus habitantes mediante el uso y aprovechamiento de la tecnología, así como su competitividad en el contexto social, económico y cultural ... -
Microdatos para el estudio de la productividad en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-07)La creciente disponibilidad de microdatos empresariales ha permitido a los investigadores indagar sobre el papel que la heterogeneidad entre las empresas o establecimientos productivos juega para explicar la productividad ... -
Misallocated Talent: Teen Pregnancy, Education and Job Sorting in Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-04-20)Policy makers and international organizations often argue that teenage pregnancy affects girls’ life trajectories by, for example, limiting their employment opportunities. These concerns are amplified in regions with high ... -
Money can buy me life. The Effect of a Basic Pension on Mortality: a Regression Discontinuity Design
(Caracas, 2018-06-12)This paper estimates the effect of a permanent income increase for the elderly on their health outcomes. Our regression discontinuity design exploits an eligibility cutoff in a Chilean basic pension program that grants ... -
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 Allocation of Talent
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market beyond the well-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective ... -
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 ... -
Motherhood, Pregnancy or Marriage Effects
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-28)The existence of large child penalties on women’s labor market outcomes has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (including ...
