Listar 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica por título
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Management practices, firm ownership, and productivity in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)We analyze management and performance data for over 8,000 manufacturing firms across the Americas, Asia and Europe. We find that Latin American firms have poor management practices by international standards, with limited ... -
Measuring Imperfect Competition in Product and Labor Markets. An Empirical Analysis using Firm-level Production Data
(CAF; California, 2018-01)In this paper, we develop a simple theoretical model that allows us to disentangle empirically the extent of imperfect competition in product and labor markets using plant-level production data. The model assumes ... -
Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-04)We provide a novel approach to estimate the deadweight loss of congestion. We implement it for road travel in the city of Bogotá using information from a travel survey and counterfactual travel data generated from Google ... -
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-09-20)This paper uses high-resolution images of nighttime luminosity to estimate a globally comparable measure of the size of metropolitan areas around the world for the years 2000 and 2010. We apply recently-proposed methodologies ... -
Medición de las necesidades refrigeración y calefacción en América Latina y el Caribe
(2023-12-20)Las temperaturas extremas afectan negativamente el aprendizaje, la productividad y la salud. La exposición de las poblaciones a las mismas adquiere especial relevancia debido al cambio climático. El presente trabajo presenta ... -
Microdatos para el estudio de la productividad en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-07)La creciente disponibilidad de microdatos empresariales ha permitido a los investigadores indagar sobre el papel que la heterogeneidad entre las empresas o establecimientos productivos juega para explicar la productividad ... -
Misallocated Talent: Teen Pregnancy, Education and Job Sorting in Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-04-20)Policy makers and international organizations often argue that teenage pregnancy affects girls’ life trajectories by, for example, limiting their employment opportunities. These concerns are amplified in regions with high ... -
Money can buy me life. The Effect of a Basic Pension on Mortality: a Regression Discontinuity Design
(Caracas, 2018-06-12)This paper estimates the effect of a permanent income increase for the elderly on their health outcomes. Our regression discontinuity design exploits an eligibility cutoff in a Chilean basic pension program that grants ... -
More to Live for: Health Investment Responses to Expected Retirement Wealth in Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-12-18)A poorly understood but important way that economic conditions influence health is through the incentives that they create for health investments. In this paper, we study how individuals’ current health investments respond ... -
Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-03-05)We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, ... -
Motherhood and the Allocation of Talent
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market beyond the well-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective ... -
Motherhood and the missing women in the labor market
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-09-06)Motherhood currently stands out as a key determinant of the gender gap in labor market outcomes. Studies identifying the effect of children have mostly focused in Europe and the US. These results may not be extrapolated ... -
Motherhood, Pregnancy or Marriage Effects
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-28)The existence of large child penalties on women’s labor market outcomes has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (including ... -
La movilidad educativa intergeneracional en el siglo XX en América Latina y el Caribe
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)En este trabajo aportamos nuevas mediciones de movilidad educativa intergeneracional para América Latina y el Caribe a partir de datos censales armonizados para 22 países. Producimos estimaciones de medidas de movildiad ... -
Movilidad ocupacional en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-16)La persistencia de desigualdades entre generaciones representa un tópico de sumo interés para las sociedades. Mientras que la mayoría de este tipo de estudios se concentra en desigualdades educativas, en este trabajo ... -
Moving Citizens and Deterring Criminals: Innovation in Public Transport Facilities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)This paper explores the relationship between urban public transportation innovation and crime. In 2004, the city of Medellin in Colombia developed an innovative public transportation system based on cable cars (Metrocable) ... -
Moving “away" from Opportunities?: Homeownership and Employment
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 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 ... -
My (Running) Mate, the Mayor: Political Ties and Access to Public Jobs in Ecuador
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-01-17)We show that local politicians’ probability of being employed by a municipality increases when they have a strong party connection to its mayor. Using a regression discontinuity design, we compare the employment outcomes ... -
Occupational Choice and Investments in Human Capital in Informal Economies
(CAF; Argentina, 2017-12-12)Countries di er greatly in their levels of schooling and also in their rates of entrepreneurship. At the same time, the share of the so-called \shadow economy" -informal economic activities- is very large in some countries ... -
Oil abundance and growth
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)The aim of this paper is to investigate the following questions: Is an abundance of oil, a curse or a blessing? What are the effects of oil abundance on growth and economic development, as seen in the level of income per ...
