Navegação 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica por data do documento
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Financial Technologies, Labor Markets, and Informality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems
(2026-09-24)While technological innovations typically increase wage inequality by favoring skilled workers, we show that instant payment systems instead reduce it. We study the labor market effects of instant payment systems in the ... -
Automation and the Margins of Firm and Worker Adjustment in Argentina
(2026-09-17)We examine how automation reshapes firm labor demand and incumbent-worker trajectories in Argentina over 2007–2022. We link customs records on automation-capital imports to administrative employer–employee and simplified ... -
Regulating Platform Work where Informality Matters: Evidence from Chile
(2026-09-17)Chile’s 2022 Platform Work Law mandates firms to monitor their subcontractors’ formality and establishes maximum working hours, minimum pay, and the right to collective bargaining among these independent contractors. Unlike ... -
Digitalization and artificial intelligence in Latin America: employer demand for AI, technical and soft skills
(2026-09-04)The rapid diffusion of automation and the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to production have boosted productivity and economic growth while also posing significant challenges for labor markets. These technological ... -
Out of Agriculture, Sill Vulnerable: Rural Labor Markets in Latin America
(2026-09-04)Rural poverty has declined substantially in Latin America over the past two decades, yet vulnerability remains high and rural–urban gaps persist. This paper examines the factors associated with this persistence using ... -
Measuring Development and Welfare: The Use of Night-lights to Evaluate Programs and Formulate Policy
(2026-07-28)This document explores the use of high-resolution nighttime satellite imagery as a tool to measure economic development and evaluate the impacts of public interventions, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean ... -
The Gender Pay Gap in a Highly Regulated Market
(2026-07-17)This paper studies gender pay disparities in Mexico's public-school system, a highly regulated labor market with standardized pay schedules and centralized wage setting. Using administrative payroll data from 2016 to 2024, ... -
Labor Market Impacts of an Internship Program on People with Disabilities
(2026-04-28)This paper examines the impact of an internship program in Argentina (Programa Primer Paso; PPP) on the formal employment trajectories of people with disabilities (PwD). Using administrative data from 2002 to 2023 and a ... -
Asymmetric Adaptation to Heat and Energy Poverty
(2026-03-30)This study examines the responses of household electricity consumption to temperature changes, focusing on asymmetries between welfare deciles. Our analysis exploits a unique panel dataset for Peru that links household ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
