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What is the Role of Urban Growth on Inequality, and Segregation? The Case of Urban Argentina´s Urban Agglomerations
(CAF, 2016-11)
We analyze the relationship between urban sprawl and changing patterns of inequality and segregation in metropolitan areas of Argentina. The existing literature has endeavored to study the determinants of the expansion of ...
Moving Citizens and Deterring Criminals: Innovation in Public Transport Facilities
(CAF, 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) ...
Income Segregation and Urban Spatial Structure: Evidence from Brazil
(CAF, 2016-08-05)
We estimate the effect of urban spatial structure on income segregation in Brazilian cities between 2000 and 2010. Our results show that, first, local density conditions increase income segregation: the effect is higher ...
The pharmacological channel revisited: alcohol sales restrictions and crime in Bogotá
(CAF, 2013)
Our goal in this paper is twofold: First, evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of latenight alcohol sales in Bogotá; and second, quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime ...
Local economic development. Some cities develop more than others: specialization, human capital and institutions
(CAF, 2009)
Why does a certain metropolitan area grow more than another? The answer to this question has evaded much of the considerable body of scholarship on the topic. One problem may be that some of the frameworks that drive ...
Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning for Automatic Slum Identification from VHE Imagery
(CAF, 2016-11-23)
Slum identification in urban settlements is a crucial step in the process of formulation of propoor policies. However, the use of conventional methods for slums detection such as field surveys may result time consuming and ...
City Size, Distance and Formal Employment Creation
(CAF, 2016-10-09)
Cities thrive through the diversity of their occupants because the availability of complementary skills enables firms in the formal sector to grow, delivering increasingly sophisticated products and services. The appearance ...
High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities
(CAF, 2016-12)
The aim of this work is to study the relationship between high-skilled workers’ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities. This relationship is not clear at first sight. On the one hand high-skilled workers’ ...
Effect of Socio-Economic Stratification on House Value in Bogotá
(CAF, 2016-12-24)
This paper investigates the impact of urban fiscal policies on housing value. We use a focalization system in Bogotá where certain subsidies and taxes are targeted based on a classification of houses according to external ...
Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá
(CAF, 2017-04)
We provide a novel approach to estimate the deadweight loss of congestion. We implement it for road travel in the city of Bogotá using information from a travel survey and counterfactual travel data generated from Google ...