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Eficiencia energética en Bolivia: identificación de oportunidades
(CAF, 2016-05)
Este estudio describe 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 punto de vista de la EE con ...
Drug battles and school achievement: evidence from Rio de Janeiro's favelas
(CAF, 2013)
This paper examines the effects of armed conflicts between drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro's favelas on student achievement. To identify the causal effect of violence on education, we explore variation in violence that occurs ...
Habilidades no cognitivas en América Latina. Una medición desde pruebas estandarizadas.
(CAF, 2016-08-31)
Medir habilidades es complejo, pues son inobservables. Este problema es particularmente importante en la medición de habilidades no cognitivas, donde usualmente se emplean métodos basados en el auto-reporte. Como alternativa ...
Young businesses, entrepreneurship, and the dynamics of employment and ouput in Colombia´s manufacturing industry
(CAF, 2012)
In this paper, we study the characteristics and growth dynamics of young businesses, and the contribution of these businesses to aggregate growth, in a developing economy: Colombia. Our study covers the 17 years between ...
Subsidios al consumo de los servicios públicos: reflexiones a partir del caso colombiano
(CAF, 2008)
Este artículo presenta una evaluación del esquema de subsidios cruzados a las tarifas de servicios públicos vigentes en Colombia, basada en el análisis de encuestas de hogares, y estudia las propiedades de esquemas ...
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- ...
Political constraints and state capacity: Evidence from a land allocation program in Mexico
(CAF, 2015-07-20)
In this paper we contribute to the understanding of the politics of state building. We emphasize that incumbent clientelistic parties might have incentives to sustain state fragility when politically challenged. We develop ...
El tamaño importa: la estructura vertical de gobierno y la gestión del gasto público local
(CAF, 2008)
Una gran cantidad de países alrededor del mundo presentan estructuras verticales de gobierno percibidas como ineficientes debido a un alto nivel de fragmentación jurisdiccional. La respuesta común a este diagnostico ha ...
Police reform, training and crime: experimental evidence from colombia's plan cuadrantes
(CAF, 2013)
The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities ...
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 ...