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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 ...
Education, Signaling and Mismatch
(CAF, 2016-06)
We assess the importance education as a signal of workers skills and the e¤ects of poor signaling quality on labor market outcomes. We do so by merging a frictional labor market model with a signaling setup where there is ...
Housing Subsidies, Labor Supply and Household Welfare. Experimental Evidence from Argentina
(CAF, 2016-10)
We study the impact of a social housing policy program implemented in Argentina, exploiting the random assignment rule to identify the policy's causal effect on labor market and other socio-economic outcomes. In particular, ...
Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Crash of Ponzi Schemes
(CAF, 2016-03-14)
In November 2008, Colombian authorities dismantled a network of Ponzi schemes, making hundreds of thousands of investors lose tens of millions of dollars throughout the country. Using original data on the geographical ...
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 ...
A Taxonomy of Colombia’s Informal Labor Market
(2016)
A taxonomy of the informal labor market is extremely important to understand and handle informality, particularly in a country as Colombia where this phenomenon is large and heterogeneous. As we will argue in this paper, ...
The Effect of the Kangaroo Mother Care Program (KMC) on Wages: A structural Model
(CAF, 2016-04-14)
In this paper we analyze the relationship between skills and some outcomes later in life for a population of premature children. Pretreatment skills and characteristics are good predictors of childhood and adulthood skills ...
El desafío del desarrollo de habilidades en América Latina. Un diagnóstico de los problemas y soluciones de política pública
(Diálogo Interamericano, Mathematica Policy Research, CAF, 2016-10-31)
La historia de América Latina se ha caracterizado por sus fluctuantes tasas de crecimiento económico, el desarrollo insuficiente del capital humano y altos niveles de desigualdad de ingresos. El final del ciclo
de una ...
El Fenómeno de los NiNis en América Latina
(CAF, 2016-12-30)
En los últimos años, y en todos los países de la región, se ha ido incrementando la preocupación por la situación de los jóvenes que ni se encuentran insertos en el sistema educativo ni se han integrado al mercado laboral ...
Inequality, Crime, and the Long Run Legacy of Slavery
(CAF, 2016-12-25)
This paper investigates the relationship between economic inequality and crime in Colombian municipalities. Following recent scholarly research that suggests that the legacy of slavery is largely manifest in persistent ...