Browsing 06. Documentos de trabajo by Title
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Patrones de desarrollo en América Latina: ¿convergencia o caída en la trampa del ingreso medio?
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)América Latina cuenta con el mayor número de países de ingreso medio del mundo, sin embargo, durante la mayor parte del siglo XX las tasas de crecimiento per cápita de los países de la región fueron inferiores a aquellas ... -
Pax Monopolista and Crime: The Case of the Emergence of the Primeiro Comando da Capital in São Paulo
(CAF; Caracas, 2014-07-15)This paper documents a rare phenomenon: the consequence of the dominance of a single criminal gang in the city of São Paulo, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). Using unique data to identify entry in geographically ... -
Peer Effects in the Development of Capabilities in Adolescence
(CAF; Caracas, 2015-09-29)We estimate peer effects in cognitive, non-cognitive and health-related outcomes in a sample of Uruguayan high-school students. Our identification strategy is based on two features of the data: (i) parents are not able to ... -
People or places: the causes of spatial income differences in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)This paper explores testable implications of a simple model of spatial heterogeneity in earnings, a model in which this spatial heterogeneity arises both from differences in the places that people work and differences among ... -
Perceptions of Police Corruption in Medellín
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-11-06)Conventional wisdom holds that police corruption is a scourge across Latin America, undermining citizens’ trust in and collaboration with police officers. We find that this does not describe police-community relations in ... -
Police reform, training and crime: experimental evidence from colombia's plan cuadrantes
(CAF; Caracas, 2013)The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities ... -
Political Alignment and Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation in a Fragmented Political Landscape: Evidence from Mexico
(2024-09-26)We investigate the relationship between neighboring municipal authorities’ shared party affiliation and inter-jurisdictional cooperation agreements in Mexico. Exploiting a Regression Discontinuity Design in close municipal ... -
Political connections and misallocation of procurement contracts: evidence from Ecuador
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-12-2)This paper uses detailed ownership information of private firms in Ecuador and the identity of bureaucrats to document the effects of political connections on firm size and the allocation of government contracts. Reduced-form ... -
Political constraints and state capacity: Evidence from a land allocation program in Mexico
(CAF, 2015-07-20)In this paper we contribute to the understanding of the politics of state building. We emphasize that incumbent clientelistic parties might have incentives to sustain state fragility when politically challenged. We develop ... -
Políticas de empleo para enfrentar la crisis del COVID-19
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-07-13)Esta nota muestra cómo la crisis de la pandemia ha provocado una altísima destrucción de empleo que ha afectado más a los jóvenes, las mujeres y a trabajadores informales, independientes, menos educados y de empresas ... -
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 ... -
Políticas de inclusión financiera y las nuevas tecnologías en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-07-13)La digitalización de los servicios financieros tiene el potencial de promover la inclusión financiera al reducir algunas de las barreras tradicionales que limitan la participación de las personas en el sector financiero ... -
Políticas para reducir las brechas educativas en la pospandemia
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-08-17)El cierre sin precedentes de las escuelas en casi todos los países y el efecto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en los ingresos y el bienestar de las familias han afectado negativamente los aprendizajes y la trayectoria educativa ... -
Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-08)In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ... -
Portugal: La transformación digital a pasos agigantados
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-07-15)Este informe de política se basa en el estudio de caso Portugal: La transformación digital a pasos agigantados (CAF, 2020) que documenta los factores determinantes para adoptar la transformación digital, la estrategia para ... -
Portugal: Leapfrogging Digital Transformation
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-07-14)This report is structured as follow: Section 1 presents details about Portugal enabling or inhibiting its digital transformation. Section 2 analyzes the main motivations for the digital transformation strategy; Section 3 ... -
Portugal: Leapfrogging digital transformation
(Caracas, 2021-07-15)This policy brief is based on the case study “Portugal: leapfrogging digital transformation” (CAF, 2020) that documents the drivers for embracing digital transformation, the strategy for sustaining it, the governance model ... -
Prácticas laborales como mecanismo para mejorar la empleabilidad de los jóvenes: Lecciones para el caso argentino
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-12-14)El desempleo y la informalidad son más altos para los jóvenes que para los adultos. Las causas detrás de este problema se relacionan con las barreras al primer acceso al mercado del trabajo y pueden clasificarse en dos ... -
Predicting Individual Wellbeing Through Test Scores: Evidence from a National Assessment in Mexico
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-05)We construct two longitudinal datasets that record students’ test scores in a national standardized exam in Mexico and track students from the end of primary (Grade 6) to the end of lower (Grade 9) and upper (Grade 12) ... -
Preventing underage alcohol use through changes in norms and risk perception: A randomized evaluation of two school-based prevention programs in Colombia
(Distrito Capital, 2023-12-28)This study evaluates the short-term impact of two school-based inter ventions designed to prevent alcohol use among children in high-risk schools in Bogotá, Colombia. The programs aimed at increasing the perception of risk ...