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Gender Gaps in Labor Informality: The Motherhood Effect
(CAF, 2020-12-15)
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 ...
Spatial inequalities in educational opportunities: The role of public policies
(CAF, 2021-12-17)
This paper documents spatial patterns in intergenerational mobility at the top of the educational distribution and assess the role of public policies in increasing educational opportunities. Our analysis relies on novel ...
Who attract the public sector compensation schemes?: evidence from Latin America
(CAF, 2021-12-22)
Compensation schemes tend to differ markedly between public and private sector jobs, which can affect the relative preferences of potential employees towards those jobs. We explore this through two informational experiments ...
Movilidad ocupacional en América Latina
(CAF, 2021-12-16)
La persistencia de desigualdades entre generaciones representa un tópico de sumo interés para las sociedades. Mientras que la mayoría de este tipo de estudios se concentra en desigualdades educativas, en este trabajo ...
What a difference a full day makes: Evidence from new schools in Fortaleza
(CAF, 2022-03-18)
Although longer school days are in increasing supply, a lack of consensus about their effectiveness persists. Motivated by this gap, this paper studies the effect of enrolling in a new set of full-time secondary schools ...
Public financial support and innovation in Colombian manufacturing firms
(CAF, 2017-05-30)
We evaluate the impact of public financial support, both subsidies and credit, on different types of innovation in Colombian industry. We compare it with the effects of financing innovation with own resources and with ...
Encuesta de medición de capacidades financieras: Ecuador 2020
(CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, 2020)
Con el fin de conocer el nivel de conocimientos en temas financieros de la población ecuatoriana, CAF- Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina, en colaboración con el Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE), desarrollaron la segunda ...
Las pymes en América Latina y el Caribe
(CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, 2023-09)
Las matrices empresariales de América Latina y el Caribe cuentan con una alta representatividad de empresas pequeñas y medianas (pymes), tal como ocurre también en otras regiones del planeta. No obstante, estas empresas ...