Conventional wisdom holds that police corruption is a scourge across Latin America, undermining citizens’ trust in and collaboration with police officers. We find that this does not describe police-community relations in ...

Countries di er greatly in their levels of schooling and also in their rates of entrepreneurship. At the same time, the share of the so-called \shadow economy" -informal economic activities- is very large in some countries ...

En el contexto de MESACTS, y en el marco del proyecto DIALOGAS, se han desarrollado durante el 2018 cuatro mesas orientadas a intercambios en los temas de evaluación, articulación intersectorial, planes de acción de programas ...

Argentina inició en diciembre de 2015 un ambicioso proyecto de digitalización del sector público federal. Como consecuencia de dicho proceso, se pasó de una administración basada en papel a una gestión pública ...

Brazil began the implementation of SUS (Universal Health Insurance) in 1988. To the extent that SUS broke the link between employment contract and health insurance, it may have changed the incentives for individuals to ...

En este trabajo se analiza la sostenibilidad de la deuda de Paraguay. La deuda de Paraguay mostraba una evolución creciente desde el 8,1% del PIB en 2011 al 22,7% del PIB en 2019, nivel bajo para estándares internacionales. ...

How should government adopt and implement digital innovation to support a deep, cost-effective digital transformation that impacts the quality of goods and services delivered to the population? To answer that question is ...

La baja productividad es uno de los principales problemas que han padecido las economías de América Latina durante décadas. Para abordar este problema, Chile creó en 2015 la Comisión Nacional de Productividad (CNP) con un ...

A poorly understood but important way that economic conditions influence health is through the incentives that they create for health investments. In this paper, we study how individuals’ current health investments respond ...

We estimate the short- and long-run labor market impacts of parenthood in a developing country, Chile, based on an eventstudy approach around the birth of the first child. We assess mechanisms behind these effects based ...