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Inteligencia artificial para la recuperación pospandemia. Informe 3
(CAF, 2022-06-30)
Este estudio continúa con la serie sobre el uso e impacto de la IA en el sector público en América Latina, y analiza la evolución y enseñanzas del uso de inteligencia artificial (IA) previo, durante y después del pico de ...
The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity
(CAF, 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 ...
Tripping at the Finish Line Experimental Evidence on the Road of Misperceptions on Secondary School Completion
(CAF, 2022-06-14)
In Argentina, more than 90 percent of teenagers are enrolled in upper secondary school, but only 50 percent graduate on time. I conducted a field experiment in Salta, Argentina, to test if lack of information about how ...
Evaluating the Impact of Buenos Aires’s Metrobus on Within-City Spatial Sorting
(CAF, 2022-06-14)
How do improvements in the urban transport infrastructure affect the spatial sorting of residents with different levels of in-come and education within a city? What are the welfare effects of improving urban transit once ...
Roads illuminate development: Using nightlight luminosity to assess the impact of transport infrastructure
(CAF, 2022-06-14)
The research aims to evaluate the impact of paved major roads on economic growth at the municipal level in Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. Due to the absence of municipal information, pub-licly available satellite data are ...
Wealth in Latin America
(CAF, 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 ...
Socioeconomic Gradients in Test Scores across Latin American and the Caribbean
(CAF, 2022-05-05)
In this paper we document gaps in math and reading achievement between children whose mothers have completed at least upper secondary education and those who have not, using test scores from third and sixth graders across ...
Nota de Productividad Brasil: El desafío de aumentar la productividad de la economía brasileña
(CAF, 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 ...
Impacto potencial del uso de la inteligencia artificial en el empleo público en América Latina
(CAF, 2022-04-29)
Este policy brief es el primero de una serie de documentos de política sobre el uso e impacto de la inteligencia artificial en el sector público. Estos documentos sintetizan los principales hallazgos, conclusiones y ...
Intergenerational earnings mobility and macroeconomic shocks: Evidence based on administrative records
(CAF, 2022-04-26)
This paper provides novel evidence on trends in intergenerational earnings mobility in a developing country and explores some transmission mechanisms associated with the characteristics of the labor market. Using a novel ...