06. Documentos de trabajo: Envíos recientes
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
The Asymmetric Impact of Trade Shocks on Rural and Urban Areas: Evidence from Chile
(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
(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 ... -
Geography and Agricultural Productivity: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean
(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 Origins of Structural Transformation
(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
(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
(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 ...
