Listar 06. Documentos de trabajo por título
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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 ... -
La movilidad educativa intergeneracional en el siglo XX en América Latina y el Caribe
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)En este trabajo aportamos nuevas mediciones de movilidad educativa intergeneracional para América Latina y el Caribe a partir de datos censales armonizados para 22 países. Producimos estimaciones de medidas de movildiad ... -
Movilidad ocupacional en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-16)La persistencia de desigualdades entre generaciones representa un tópico de sumo interés para las sociedades. Mientras que la mayoría de este tipo de estudios se concentra en desigualdades educativas, en este trabajo ... -
Moving Citizens and Deterring Criminals: Innovation in Public Transport Facilities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)This paper explores the relationship between urban public transportation innovation and crime. In 2004, the city of Medellin in Colombia developed an innovative public transportation system based on cable cars (Metrocable) ... -
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 ... -
My (Running) Mate, the Mayor: Political Ties and Access to Public Jobs in Ecuador
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-01-17)We show that local politicians’ probability of being employed by a municipality increases when they have a strong party connection to its mayor. Using a regression discontinuity design, we compare the employment outcomes ... -
Nearshoring: Possible Scenarios of its Size and Impact on Mexico´s Economy
(2024-04-22)We present an analytical framework and evidence that characterize the historical patterns of Mexico’s manufacturing exports and its participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs). We use this framework to guide an empirical ... -
Nota de Productividad Bolivia: Más productividad para impulsar el crecimiento
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-09-15)La economía de Bolivia se ha caracterizado por su alta dependencia de los recursos naturales. Los ciclos de expansión y recesión de la economía se explican fundamentalmente por las variaciones en los precios internacionales ... -
Nota de Productividad Brasil: El desafío de aumentar la productividad de la economía brasileña
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-04-29)La economía brasileña presenta un problema crónico de bajo crecimiento. Desde la época del milagro económico en los años setenta el Producto Interno Bruto no ha logrado marcar una senda de crecimiento sostenido. Aunque en ... -
Nota de Productividad Colombia: Desafíos de la productividad en el sector agropecuario
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-02-23)Este trabajo explora los determinantes de la productividad del sector agropecuario colombiano. La principal hipótesis evaluada empíricamente es que la elevada informalidad de la tenencia de la tierra es un elemento central ... -
Nota de Productividad Perú: Productividad es la clave para retomar la senda de crecimiento
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-09-12)Perú es un país de ingreso medio alto que se expandió aceleradamente en las últimas dos décadas. No obstante, en el último quinquenio, se evidenció una desaceleración del crecimiento, tras el fin del super ciclo de materias ... -
Nota de Productividad: Trinidad y Tobago, una economía dual limitada por baja calidad de insumos públicos
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-06)Trinidad y Tobago es una economía de renta alta con un PIB per cápita 57,7 % más elevado que el promedio regional para América Latina y El Caribe. El sector de energía contribuye con cerca del 35 % del PIB y del 90 % de ... -
Nueva normalidad y formación profesional. Aportes desde la experiencia de cuatro instituciones de formación
(CAF, 2022-03-29)Este estudio busca caracterizar los procesos de vuelta a la presencialidad en una muestra de cuatro Instituciones de Formación Profesional (IFP) de la región: El Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje Industrial SENAI en Brasil, ... -
Occupational Choice and Investments in Human Capital in Informal Economies
(CAF; Argentina, 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 ...
