06. Documentos de trabajo: Envíos recientes

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    • Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects 

      Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho, Verónica; Pariguana, Marco (2025-10-31)
      This paper explores an information intervention designed and implemented within a school assignment mechanism in Mexico City. Through a randomized experiment, we show that providing a subset of applicants with feedback ...

    • Lifting Each Other Up: How Cooperative Firms Foster Local Development 

      Woo-Gómez, Guillermo; Woo-Mora, Guillermo (2025-10-30)
      Do cooperative firms foster local economic development? This paper examines Mexico, assembling a new georeferenced panel dataset at the 10 × 10 km grid-cell level for 2015–2023. Across multiple research designs, we ...

    • Lasting Lessons: The Long-Term Impacts of School-Based Financial Education 

      Chong, Juan Carlos; Frisancho, Verónica; García, Antonella; Ventura, Édgar (2025-10-30)
      This study experimentally examines the long-term effects of school-based financial education, analyzing data from nearly 60,000 individuals in Peru, seven years post-intervention. Treated students increased their total ...

    • Women, Motherhood, and Structural Transformation. Insights from Rural Latin America 

      Marchionni, Mariana; Pierino Pedrazzi, Julián; Pinto, María Florencia (2025-09-18)
      Structural transformation—the shift from agriculture to industry and services—is key to economic development and can reshape labor market gender gaps. Yet little is known about how this process has unfolded in rural Latin ...

    • Geography and Agricultural Productivity: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean 

      Adamopoulos, Tasso (2025-09-09)
      This working paper quantifies the role of current land quality and geographic conditions as well as projected future climate change for agricultural productivity differences across and within Latin American and Caribbean ...

    • The Asymmetric Impact of Trade Shocks on Rural and Urban Areas: Evidence from Chile 

      Albina, Iván; César, Andrés; Ciaschi, Matías; Falcone, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo (2025-09-09)
      This paper examines the causal effects of trade shocks on local labor markets (LLMs), with a focus on the rural–urban divide. In particular, it analyzes the impact of China’s integration into global trade on Chilean LLMs ...

    • Grados de ruralidad: una propuesta de medición para Argentina 

      Albina, Iván; Gasparini, Leonardo; Gluzmann, Pablo (2025-09-09)
      Este trabajo contribuye a la medición de “grados de ruralidad” en Argentina. El trabajo propone un índice multidimensional relativo de ruralidad que integra la clasificación tradicional de áreas de INDEC con datos censales ...

    • The Origins of Structural Transformation 

      Caunedo, Julieta; Felix, Mayara; Manysheva, Kristina (2025-08-29)
      The study examines how labor market shocks originating in non-agriculture affect the organization of agricultural production. Using data from Brazil between 1986 and 2017, it shows that the entry of large non-agricultural ...

    • Programas públicos de turismo rural y comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe. Evolución, impactos y recomendaciones para la implementación 

      Gandolfi, Marcello; Ramírez, Pablo (2025-08-27)
      Este documento analiza los programas públicos de apoyo al turismo rural y comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), con especial atención a su evolución e impacto. Se destaca que el turismo rural y comunitario ha ...

    • Agricultural Distortions and International Migration 

      Britos, Braulio; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Trupkin, Danilo R. (2025-07-31)
      International migration is a recurrent phenomenon that has grown rapidly over the past two decades. This paper examines the role of agricultural distortions in shaping emigration patterns and influencing productivity and ...

    • ¿Empleos verdes, empleos de mejor calidad? Una mirada desde los datos de PIAAC 

      Alvarez, Fernando; Allub, Lian; Bonavida, Cristian; Finkelstein, Martín (CAF; Caracas, 2025-07-10)
      Este estudio analiza las diferencias en la calidad del empleo entre ocupaciones verdes y no verdes utilizando datos de la encuesta PIAAC, con especial atención al ingreso salarial. El enfoque se centra en México, Chile y ...

    • Prosperidad Agropecuaria 

      Autor desconocido (CAF; Caracas, 2025-03)
      La nueva Estrategia de Prosperidad Agropecuaria de CAF para América Latina y el Caribe está enfocada en la producción agropecuaria sostenible, resiliente y regenerativa, como un pilar fundamental para abordar la seguridad ...

    • Internal Control as State Capacity 

      Toral, Guillermo (2024-09-26)
      While previous research has thoroughly examined the consequences of external control on subnational governments, less is known about the drivers and consequences of internal control. This paper presents a series of findings ...

    • Embracing modernity pays: Cadastre modernization effects on local property tax collection 

      Montoya-Aguirre, Maria; Chávez, Emmanuel; Woo-Mora, Guillermo (2024-09-26)
      This paper investigates the impact of the Mexican cadastre modernization program on local property tax revenue. We evaluate a comprehensive modernization initiative, which began in 2010 and included guidelines, technical ...

    • Political Alignment and Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation in a Fragmented Political Landscape: Evidence from Mexico 

      Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Durante, Ruben; Gutierrez, Emilio (2024-09-26)
      We investigate the relationship between neighboring municipal authorities’ shared party affiliation and inter-jurisdictional cooperation agreements in Mexico. Exploiting a Regression Discontinuity Design in close municipal ...

    • Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from a Constitutional Reform in Brazil 

      Clarke, Damian; Rocha, Rudi; Szklo, Michel (2024-09-26)
      There is surprisingly scarce evidence regarding the extent to which and how government health expenditure affects health outcomes. Exploiting variation generated by Brazil’s 29th Constitutional Amendment, which mandated ...

    • Los desafíos de la integración fronteriza en la amazonía brasileña 

      López, Oswaldo (CAF; Caracas, 2024-08-07)
      En este documento se discute la integración fronteriza septentrional de Brasil a partir del entendimiento de los factores económicos, sociales y culturales de la Región Norte. La presencia del extenso bioma amazónico, ...

    • The Anatomy of Colombian Bureaucratic Hierarchies 

      Martínez, Luis; Snowberg, Erik; Ting, Michael (2024-07-26)
      The effective deployment of the bureaucracy is fundamental to government performance and economic development. We study the organizational architecture of the central administration for a large sample of municipal governments ...

    • Money and lies: proxy respondents and the mismeasurement of income in surveys 

      Estrada, Ricardo; Goyheix, Daniela; Lombardi, María (CAF; Caracas, 2024-07-08)
      When sampled individuals are not found at home, many surveys rely on a proxy respondent: another knowledgeable household member. We study the difference between self- and proxy-reported labor income in Mexico. We use the ...

    • Identidad Digital Autosoberana (IDA) 

      Cánepa, Soledad; Bagdassarian, Tamara; Díaz Rato, Sabrina (CAF; Caracas, 2024-07-02)
      En un mundo cada vez más conectado, donde la digitalización permea todos los aspectos de nuestra vida cotidiana, surge un concepto revolucionario que redefine la manera en que interactuamos en línea: la identidad digital ...