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Moving “away" from Opportunities?: Homeownership and Employment
(CAF, 2016-07-10)
Homeownership is promoted by the majority of OECD member countries. Nevertheless, the impact that owning a house can have on employment levels is not fully understood. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ...
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 ...
Clean Energy Innovation in Latin America
(Interamerican Dialogue; CAF, 2016-03-01)
Clean energy research and commercialization have taken off over the last decade. The annual number of clean technology patent documents more than tripled between 2000 and 2014,while venture capital (VC) investment in the ...
Integrating Early-life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children´s Education
(CAF, 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) ...
Eficiencia energética en Panamá: identificación de oportunidades
(CAF, 2016-05)
En los últimos tiempos el uso eficiente y racional de la energía ha pasado a ser un elemento importante dentro de la planificación energética de los países, así como de los diversos sectores y tipos de usuarios que tienen ...
Eficiencia energética en Perú: identificación de oportunidades
(CAF, 2016-05)
Este reporte contiene un estudio para describir el estado de desarrollo de la Eficiencia Energética (EE) en América Latina y ofrece un balance del diagnóstico actual. Asimismo, identifica los sectores objetivos desde el ...
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 ...
Eficiencia energética en Chile: Identificación de oportunidades
(CAF, 2016-05-16)
América Latina ha comenzado lentamente la integración de políticas asociadas con el uso eficiente de la energía y la integración de los programas de eficiencia energética (EE) desde el lado de la demanda (residencial, ...
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) ...