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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, ...
Government performance, taxation and citizen participation: evidence from Brazil
(CAF, 2011)
Fiscal contract theories of the state hypothesize that government performance affects tax collection and that institutions that foster representation and accountability link taxes and services. These propositions have yet ...
The pillars of fiscal decentralization
(CAF, 2008)
Fiscal decentralization can de be defined as the process of transferring budgetary authority from central government to elected subnational governments in order to grant them power to make decisions regarding taxes and ...
Deterrence and reciprocity effects on tax compliance: experimental evidence from Venezuela
(CAF, 2013)
A recent debate on tax compliance asks whether enforcement mechanisms can be complemented, or even substituted by appeals to the taxpayer’s tax morality: his or her intrinsic willingness to pay taxes, motivated by purely ...
Tax structure in Latin America: its impact on the real economy and compliance
(CAF, 2011)
In this paper we review the structure of tax systems in Latin America and analyze their impact on the real economy-- economic growth, macro-economic stability, income redistribution and foreign direct investment--, and on ...
The political economy of budgeting in Latin America procedures, oversight, and participation
(CAF, 2011)
This report provides a selective overview of issues pertaining to the budgetary process and a mapping out of budgetary institutions in Latin America and assesses to what extent budgets play the role societies expect from ...
From maize to haze: agricultural shocks and growth of the mexican drug sector
(CAF, 2013)
We examine how commodity price shocks experienced by rural producers affect the drug trade in Mexico. Our analysis exploits exogenous movements in the Mexican maize price stemming from weather conditions in U.S. maize-growing ...
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 ...
Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: the Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions
(CAF, 2012)
There is a growing literature studying business cycles in emerging economies. This paper contributes to this literature by examining how durable goods and financial frictions shape cyclical fluctuations in a small open ...
Local governments' capacity and performance: evidence from peruvian municipalities
(CAF, 2008)
This paper explores the extent of technical capacity constraints in Peruvian local governments. To do that, we study how effective municipalities are in using a significant income windfall due to central government transfers ...