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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 ...
Impacto de las políticas de fomento al emprendedorismo: el caso de "Buenos Aires emprende"
(CAF, 2012)
Este trabajo evalúa el impacto de una política orientada a promover la creación y desarrollo de emprendimientos innovadores en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. El programa recibe unos 100 proyectos por año, de los cuales selecciona ...
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 ...
La importancia del servicio civil en el desarrollo de capacidades estatales en América Latina
(CAF, 2015-07)
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el vínculo entre el Servicio Civil y la capacidad del sector público de implementar políticas. Para ello, examina la relación del Servicio Civil con (1) la institucionalidad formal ...
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 ...
En busca de lo inobservable: incorporando habilidades en un modelo à la Mincer
(CAF, 2015-07)
En este trabajo se busca replicar el modelo básico de Jacob Mincer (1974), con el objeto de encontrar un mejor estimador del efecto de la educación sobre los ingresos, controlando no solo por variables observables sino ...
Working mothers and intergenerational mobility: evidence from sibling schooling gaps in Venezuela
(CAF, 2011)
This paper documents the change in intergenerational mobility over the 35 year period between 1975 and 2010 in Venezuela and finds that equality of opportunities increased significantly from the mid 1970's until around ...
The economics of tax evasion
(CAF, 2011)
This paper begins by reviewing the problem of tax evasion measurement. Based on available data, I conclude that this problem is far from being negligible, both for developed and developing countries. I also present in more ...
Efectos dinámicos de los precios de las materias primas en las posiciones fiscales de América Latina
(CAF, 2010)
El último episodio de auge y caída en los precios de las materias primas ha generado preocupación acerca del impacto de precios volátiles en las posiciones fiscales de los países de América Latina. Este trabajo, usando una ...