Listar 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica por título
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Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-08)In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ... -
Prácticas laborales como mecanismo para mejorar la empleabilidad de los jóvenes: Lecciones para el caso argentino
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-12-14)El desempleo y la informalidad son más altos para los jóvenes que para los adultos. Las causas detrás de este problema se relacionan con las barreras al primer acceso al mercado del trabajo y pueden clasificarse en dos ... -
Predicting Individual Wellbeing Through Test Scores: Evidence from a National Assessment in Mexico
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-05)We construct two longitudinal datasets that record students’ test scores in a national standardized exam in Mexico and track students from the end of primary (Grade 6) to the end of lower (Grade 9) and upper (Grade 12) ... -
Preventing underage alcohol use through changes in norms and risk perception: A randomized evaluation of two school-based prevention programs in Colombia
(Distrito Capital, 2023-12-28)This study evaluates the short-term impact of two school-based inter ventions designed to prevent alcohol use among children in high-risk schools in Bogotá, Colombia. The programs aimed at increasing the perception of risk ... -
Programas de Financiamiento Productivo a pymes, acceso al crédito y desempeño de las firmas: Evidencia de Argentina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-30)En Argentina se han implementado, en los últimos años, un importante abanico de políticas de financiamiento público hacia las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas. Sin embargo, hasta el momento, no se han realizado trabajos ... -
Public expenditures and debt at the subnational level: Evidence of fiscal smoothing from Argentina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-01-30)This paper uses the particular features of the tax-sharing regime Coparticipación Federal de Impuestos and the fact that some provinces earn hydrocarbon royalties to investigate public expenditures and debt at the subnational ... -
Public financial support and innovation in Colombian manufacturing firms
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-05-30)We evaluate the impact of public financial support, both subsidies and credit, on different types of innovation in Colombian industry. We compare it with the effects of financing innovation with own resources and with ... -
Public-infraestructure and energy-subsidy policies, energy access by the poor and long-term macroeconomic performance
(CAF; Bogotá, 2017-04-24)This paper presents the main set-up and long-run results from a simple deterministic version of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy in Kawamura (2017). The model assumes two types of ... -
Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-06)We study the equilibrium effects of quality regulation on market outcomes by exploiting the staggered phase-in of bioequivalence requirements for generic drugs in Chile. While the objective of the regulation was to increase ... -
Reciprocity and willingness to pay taxes: evidence from a survey experiment in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)We provide the first experimental attempt at measuring reciprocity in tax collection in developing countries, where enforcement institutions are weak, and where tax rates and in general tax observance is lower. In a household ... -
Roads illuminate development: Using nightlight luminosity to assess the impact of transport infrastructure
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-14)The research aims to evaluate the impact of paved major roads on economic growth at the municipal level in Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. Due to the absence of municipal information, pub-licly available satellite data are ... -
Rules vs. Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-08-18)In this paper, I use a unique empirical setting that allows me to compare the performance of teachers hired in a discretionary process led by the teachers’ union in Mexico with the performance of those hired on the basis ... -
Rule–based civil service: evidence from a nationwide teacher reform in Mexico
(CAF; Caracas, 2023-07)This paper studies the effect of a civil service reform on the skills profile of new teachers in Mexico. The reform mandated the use of rule-based recruitment over discretionary hiring. Our results show that the reform ... -
Rural Property Tax Revenue in the Face of Economic Concentration and Political Competition: Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2016-09-21)We study the relationship between two sources of political power and property tax revenues in contemporary rural Colombia. First, de jure political power is the extent to which local political elites can capture the public ... -
Savings Groups Reduce Vulberability but have Mixed Effect on Financial Inclusion
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-01-08)This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and ... -
See it to believe it. Experimental evidence on status consumption among the youth.
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-09-27)We ran a field experiment in which a 20-year-old chooses be-tween a socially visible and a non-socially visible good after a friend randomly received one of these goods or an unknown good. We find no differences in choices ... -
Self-Selection into Corruption: Evidence from the Lab
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-04-22)We study whether the existence of opportunities to extract rents in a job affects the type of individuals who are attracted to it. We design a laboratory experiment in which individuals choose between two contracts, each ... -
Servicios locales, infraestructura y transporte: dimensión, escala, redes e instituciones de gobernanza
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Este trabajo pretende contribuir a la comprensión de las pautas de producción y de gobernanza de los servicios públicos locales. La cuestión central es que algunos de estos servicios están caracterizados por economías de ... -
Sistemas de salud e Inequidades en Salud en América Latina
(2023-12-20)El presente documento describe medidas de desigualdad en el acceso a la atención sanitaria y en los resultados de salud en países de América Latina, utilizando métricas estandarizadas introducidas en un estudio relacionado ... -
Size, Position and Length in Value Chains in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-03-25)In this article, I develop a framework that divides global value chains into regional and extra-regional and studies the participation of Latin American countries in international fragmentation of production along 25 years ...