Browsing 06. Documentos de trabajo by Subject "Salud"
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La analítica de redes como herramienta de integridad: el caso de la Procuraduría General de la Nación en Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-01-05)Este policy brief documenta la experiencia de la Procuraduría General de la Nación (PGN) de Colombia, en la adopción de la analítica de redes como herramienta para informar sus investigaciones en materia de lucha contra ... -
Decentralization and Access to Social Services in Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine this question empirically. This paper explores the effects of decentralization to access to health and ... -
Estrategia de contención del COVID-19 en el Barrio Padre Carlos Mugica (Ciudad de Buenos Aires)
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-06-16)En el marco de la pandemia de la COVID-19 el presente estudio busca brindar evidencia sobre la efectividad de una estrategia integral en la contención del virus implementada por el Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires ... -
Government Spending Efficiency in Latin America: A Frontier Approach
(CAF, 2014-09)Government spending efficiency in providing education and health is evaluated across countries of the world, with a special emphasis on Latin American countries. Using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analysis, it ... -
Improving the education and health of the poor: decentralization and policy reform in Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine this question empirically. This paper, the policyoriented companion to Faguet and Sánchez (2009), ... -
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) ... -
Life expectancy at retirement and income levels in Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-06-15)We document that life expectancies at the age of retirement differ significantly by income levels and gender in Chile. Using a sample of over 500 thousand workers that retired under the annuity system, we find that, ... -
Losing health insurance when young: Impacts on usage of medical services and health
(CAF, 2015-04)In this study we exploit a regulation in Colombia that exogenously changes health insurance coverage of young adult dependents, specifically those turning 18 years old, to analyze the effects of losing health insurance ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Proyecciones de ingresos y egresos fiscales para los sistemas de educación, pensiones y salud en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-12-28)América Latina se encuentra experimentando un proceso de envejecimiento demográfico con grados de avance heterogéneos entre los distintos países. Sin embargo, dos características comunes de dicho proceso contrastan con la ... -
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 ... -
Reglas fiscales para la recuperación en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-09-07)La crisis económica derivada del COVID-19 profundizó los desbalances fiscales que algunos países de América Latina venían acumulando, ante la necesidad de asignar recursos para fortalecer los sistemas de salud, proteger ... -
Retos de los sistemas de protección social y salud en el marco de la crisis del COVID-19 y a futuro
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-08-17)En América Latina persisten grandes brechas de acceso y calidad de la protección social a pesar de los avances logrados en las últimas décadas en muchos países de la región. En el contexto de pandemia, esas brechas quedaron ... -
Spillovers of health education at school on parents´ physical activity
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)To prevent modern health conditions like obesity, cancer, cardiovascular illness, and diabetes, which have reached epidemic-like proportions in recent decades, many health experts argue that students should receive Health ... -
The Value of Free Health Insurance Schemes in Developing Countries
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-12-13)Brazil began the implementation of SUS (Universal Health Insurance) in 1988. To the extent that SUS broke the link between employment contract and health insurance, it may have changed the incentives for individuals to ... -
Who benefits when inertia is reduced? Competition, quality and returns to skill in health care markets
(CAF; Caracas, 2018)Increased competition may lead to incentives for firms to increase quality by incorporating higher quality inputs. This is particularly relevant in health care markets, since the supply of high quality physicians is ...
