Listar 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica por título
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Expectations about Returns to Education. The Role of Parental and Youths’ Characteristics
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-01-17)Investing in human capital requires, among others, access and capacity to process information. This paper focuses on understanding the role of expected returns to education in determining schooling decisions. Using data ... -
Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning for Automatic Slum Identification from VHE Imagery
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11-23)Slum identification in urban settlements is a crucial step in the process of formulation of propoor policies. However, the use of conventional methods for slums detection such as field surveys may result time consuming and ... -
Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-10-19)We show that bureaucrats can exploit discretion in hiring decisions to engage in forms of favoritism that hinder organizational performance. We do this in the context of the Mexican federal judiciary. The arrival of a judge ... -
El Fenómeno de los NiNis en América Latina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-12-30)En los últimos años, y en todos los países de la región, se ha ido incrementando la preocupación por la situación de los jóvenes que ni se encuentran insertos en el sistema educativo ni se han integrado al mercado laboral ... -
Financial Frictions, Occupational Choice and Economic Inequality
(CAF; Caracas, 2012-12-10)We develop a quantitative theory of entrepreneurship, income inequality, and financial frictions disciplined with household data from Brazil. The theory extends Lucas (1978) by modeling heterogeneity in two skills: -working ... -
Financial Frictions, Trade, and Misallocation
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-07)We investigate the extent to which financial frictions shape the aggregate effects of a trade liberalization through their impact on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) and capital misallocation. We study a small ... -
Flexibility matters: do more rigid loan contracts reduce demand for microfinance?
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)Despite the rapid expansion of microfinance services in the past several decades, the low use of formal credit exhibited by poor households, the high dropout rates experienced by many microfinance institutions, and the ... -
From maize to haze: agricultural shocks and growth of the mexican drug sector
(CAF; Caracas, 2013)We examine how commodity price shocks experienced by rural producers affect the drug trade in Mexico. Our analysis exploits exogenous movements in the Mexican maize price stemming from weather conditions in U.S. maize-growing ... -
Gender Gaps in Labor Informality: The Motherhood Effect
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-12-15)We estimate the short- and long-run labor market impacts of parenthood in a developing country, Chile, based on an eventstudy approach around the birth of the first child. We assess mechanisms behind these effects based ... -
Gobierno electrónico y capacidades estatales en América Latina y el Caribe. Estudio exploratorio en centros urbanos y agencias tributarias nacionales
(CAF, 2014-09-13)El trabajo tiene como finalidad identificar las herramientas con las que cuentan las administraciones gubernamentales de América Latina en materia de gobierno electrónico, a través del relevamiento de variables que dan ... -
Going subnational: wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-22)Workers at subnational governments play a prominent role in the delivery of public services in most countries. Yet, information about their remuneration is scarce. Using data for Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay, we document ... -
Government performance, taxation and citizen participation: evidence from Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)Fiscal contract theories of the state hypothesize that government performance affects tax collection and that institutions that foster representation and accountability link taxes and services. These propositions have yet ... -
Government Spending Efficiency in Latin America: A Frontier Approach
(CAF, 2014-09)Government spending efficiency in providing education and health is evaluated across countries of the world, with a special emphasis on Latin American countries. Using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analysis, it ... -
Government transparency and political clientelism: Evidence from randomized anti-corruption audits in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-31)Political clientelism is considered a fundamental reason why politicians are not accountable and responsive to their constituencies. In this working paper, we study whether transparency initiatives – more specifically, ... -
Greenflation: The cost of the green transition in small open economies
(2022-12-28)We propose a new model of a small open economy with efficient energy use to investigate the inflationary dynamics along the green transition. The model incorporates the production of green energy that substitutes exogenous ... -
Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Effciency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 2017-11-20)We estimate the impact of participation in Chile Crece Contigo (ChCC), Chile’s flagship earlylife health and social welfare program, on neonatal health outcomes. We use administrative birth data matched to social benefits ... -
Habilidades no cognitivas en América Latina. Una medición desde pruebas estandarizadas.
(CAF, 2016-08-31)Medir habilidades es complejo, pues son inobservables. Este problema es particularmente importante en la medición de habilidades no cognitivas, donde usualmente se emplean métodos basados en el auto-reporte. Como alternativa ... -
Heterogeneous effects of automation: How are young workers affected by a changing labor market?
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-08-18)We study the effect of automation on labor market outcomes with a focus on young workers and the case of Chile. We develop an index of routine task content of each occupation and follow two approaches. First we study the ... -
High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-12)The aim of this work is to study the relationship between high-skilled workers’ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities. This relationship is not clear at first sight. On the one hand high-skilled workers’ ... -
Housing Subsidies, Labor Supply and Household Welfare. Experimental Evidence from Argentina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-10)We study the impact of a social housing policy program implemented in Argentina, exploiting the random assignment rule to identify the policy's causal effect on labor market and other socio-economic outcomes. In particular, ...
