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Gobierno electrónico y capacidades estatales en América Latina y el Caribe. Estudio exploratorio en centros urbanos y agencias tributarias nacionales
(CAF, 2014-09-13)
El trabajo tiene como finalidad identificar las herramientas con las que cuentan las administraciones gubernamentales de América Latina en materia de gobierno electrónico, a través del relevamiento de variables que dan ...
Domestic Violence and Divorce Law: When Divorce Threats Become Credible
(CAF, 2014-10-01)
This paper investigates whether lowering the cost of divorce can reduce domestic violence. The cost of divorce influences the bargaining position of spouses, and thus, their behavior within the marriage. This study takes ...
Electoral Consequences of Violent Crime: Evidence from Venezuela
(CAF, 2014-05)
To what extent to do voters hold political incumbents accountable for policy outcomes? This paper considers retrospective voting in the context of violent crime. Using a novel panel data set on county -and neighborhood- ...
El empleo público en América Latina. Evidencia de las encuestas de hogares
(CAF, 2014-09-13)
El objetivo de este trabajo es aportar evidencia sobre el empleo público en América Latina durante las últimas dos décadas (período 1992-2012). Éste es un trabajo descriptivo que provee un panorama del empleo público en ...
State Capabilities in Colombian Municipalities: Measurements and Determinants
(Universidad de los Andes; CEDE; CAF, 2014-08)
This paper constructs a comprehensive set of State Capacity indicators for Colombian municipalities, focusing in four basic governmental capabilities: fiscal, financial, physical and operational. First, a group of relevant ...
Endogenous Taxation in Ongoing Internal Conflict: The Case of Colombia
(CAF, 2014-02)
Recent empirical evidence at the cross-country and subnational levels suggests that internal conflicts harm state capacity and tax performance. On the face of it this is odd: internal conflict should create strong incentives ...
Pax Monopolista and Crime: The Case of the Emergence of the Primeiro Comando da Capital in São Paulo
(CAF, 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 ...
Crime Perceptions and Reality in Latin America
(CAF, 2014)
We show that perceptions of insecurity are strongly correlated with victimization at the individual level and suggest that the reason this relationship is usually not uncovered in simple cross country studies is that they ...
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 ...
Broadband Funding Mechanisms
(CAF, 2014)
This paper reviews funding models to support the deployment of broadband technology. The success or failure of a broadband deployment project is primarily a function of two factors: the investment model that assesses the ...