06. Documentos de trabajo: Envíos recientes
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Lasting Effects of Retaking College Admission Exams
(2026-03-12)Do second chances at a high-stakes admission exam yield long-term gains? Leveraging fifteen years of Chilean administrative data and an RDD, we examine the causal effects of retaking on educational and labor market ... -
When Does Family Size Matter for Children’s Education? Causal Evidence from Latin America
(2026-03-02)We examine the relationship between family size and children’s human capital, commonly known as the quantity–quality trade-off in Latin America. Despite historically high fertility rates and a rapid convergence toward ... -
Regulación de la Compra Pública de Inteligencia Artificial
(2026-02-26)Este documento, realizado por CAF en colaboración con ubatec, analiza el estado actual de la compra pública de sistemas de inteligencia artificial (IA) en América Latina y el Caribe, destacando tanto su rápido crecimiento ... -
Long-Term Effects of a Commodity Boom: Rubber Slavery in the Amazon
(2026-02-24)This study examines the lasting impact of the Amazon Rubber Boom (1870-1914) on contemporary income, inequality, Indigenous presence, and forest conservation. Em pirically we combine variation in historical rubber ... -
Improving food security through community participation: results from a randomized field experiment in rural Nicaragua
(2026-01-05)This paper evaluates a community based development program designed to promote climate-smart agriculture and improve food security in rural Nicaragua. Using a within-community randomized controlled trial, we estimate ... -
Full-Time Schools and Gender Specialization: Time Use Adjustments in Mexican Households
(2025-12-31)This article analyzes how extending the school day by 3.5 hours in Mexican elementary schools affected time use patterns of mothers and fathers. Using a rotating panel of households with within-individual variation in ... -
The structure of local bureaucracies in Mexico
(2025-12-19)This paper provides a systematic characterization of the organizational architecture of municipal governments in Mexico and how it varies with municipal size. Using detailed data from the National Census of Municipal ... -
The Role of Geography and Gender in Telecommunications Standards Participation
(2025-12-19)Do meeting locations shape who influences telecom standards? Using quasi-random variation generated by 3GPP rules that rotate venues across cities, we study attendance at 2,241 working group meetings (1999–2018). In a ... -
Performance Incentives and Managerial Practices: Experimental Evidence from Local Governments in Peru
(2025-12-19)This paper examines how public organizations respond to institutional incentive design by comparing an input-based contract with a mixed input- and outcome-based contract. Using a clustered randomized controlled trial ... -
Estimating Choice Models with Piecewise Smooth Objective Functions: Application to Joint Retirement
(2025-12-19)We study choice models with piecewise smooth objective functions and provide conditions under which introducing latent variables derived from regional components yields a censoredmodel– like representation. These latent ... -
Women’s representation and the governance of the commons
(2025-12-19)The study analyzes how the inclusion of women in community governance bodies affects the management of common resources. It takes advantage of the 2016 reform of Mexico's Agrarian Law, which imposed gender quotas on agrarian ... -
Cooperation and Competition: The Case of Innovation in the Telecommunications Sector
(2025-12-19)This paper proposes a novel framework for analyzing collaborative innovation that captures both competition and cooperation among firms, and examines the impact of private appropriation through IP rights licensing on ... -
Urban Planning and Local Development: Evidence from Brazil
(2025-12-18)This paper studies the effects of mandated urban planning introduced by Brazil’s 2001 City Statute, which required municipalities with at least 20,000 inhabitants to adopt a master plan. Exploiting this population threshold ... -
Estructura, modalidades y actores de la contratación pública en Ecuador: evidencia para los gobiernos locales
(2025-12-17)Este documento caracteriza el sistema de compras públicas de Ecuador con énfasis en los GADs municipales. Con datos agregados del portal Compras Públicas (SERCOP) y microdatos de Contrataciones Abiertas Ecuador–OCDS, se ... -
Inteligencia artificial y energía: una visión general de las prácticas emergentes
(2025-12-16)La inteligencia artificial (IA) está transformando los sistemas eléctricos al optimizar la producción y el rendimiento de la red, al tiempo que impulsa una nueva demanda de electricidad a través de centros de datos que ... -
Inteligência Artificial & Energia: Uma Visão Geral de Práticas Emergentes
(2025-12-16)A inteligência artificial (IA) está a remodelar os sistemas elétricos, otimizando a produção e o desempenho da rede, ao mesmo tempo que impulsiona uma nova procura de eletricidade através de centros de dados que executam ... -
How Do Climate Adaptation Policies Affect Deforestation? Evidence from a Large-Scale Water Policy
(2025-12-12)This paper examines the effects of a climate adaptation policy on production and environmental outcomes in the context of Brazil’s semiarid region, the country’s poorest and most drought prone region. The large-scale, ... -
Artificial Intelligence & Energy: An Overview of Emerging Practices
(2025-11-21)Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping electricity systems by optimizing production and grid performance while also driving new electricity demand through data centers running generative models. As both an enabler of ... -
Estrategia de Bosques Sostenibles 2025-2030
(CAF; Caracas, 2025-11-19)La estrategia de bosques sostenibles 2025-2030 establece un marco integral de acción para fortalecer la contribución del sector forestal al desarrollo sostenible de América Latina y el Caribe. Basada en los logros y ... -
Women in Office: The Impact of Female Politicians on Gender-Based Violence Reporting
(2025-11-14)Gender-based violence in the U.S. is a silent epidemic. Twenty percent of women experience rape, yet only one in three reports it. Using FBI data and a regression discontinuity design, we examine the impact of female U.S. ...
