Browsing 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica by Issue Date
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Conflicting Incentives: Government Financial Aid, Vocational-to-University Track Change and Graduates’ Wages in Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-10-16)Although literature on education economic returns is not un- common, research focusing in vocational students is quite scarce. This paper addresses labor market outcomes of vocational high schools’ students and their ... -
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 ... -
Skills and selection into teaching: Evidence from Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-08-12)This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have very low levels of cognitive skills. This skills deficit is the result of both low levels of competencies among the population and a gap between ... -
Brecha de habilidades de los jóvenes en el mercado laboral colombiano
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-07-21)La brecha de habilidades entre la oferta y la demanda laboral explica parcialmente la desfavorable situación laboral de los jóvenes. Este estudio mide el desajuste entre las habilidades que requiere la demanda de trabajo ... -
Life expectancy at retirement and income levels in Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-06-15)We document that life expectancies at the age of retirement differ significantly by income levels and gender in Chile. Using a sample of over 500 thousand workers that retired under the annuity system, we find that, ... -
Jobs’ amenability is not enough: The role of household inputs for safe work under social distancing in Latin American cities
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-06-01)The recent literature has emphasized the role of occupations in quantifying the amount of telework possible under social distancing measures during the COVID-19 outbreak. However, telework requires not only a teleworkable ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Optimal age-dependent taxation in emerging markets: A quantitative assessment
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-12-29)This paper studies the design and welfare implications of an optimal age-dependent taxation scheme for an emerging economy. The setting is an overlapping generations economy with uninsured productivity risk, partially ... -
Efectos de un accidente ferroviario sobre la demanda del servicio: El caso de la tragedia de Once en Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-12-19)Este trabajo evalúa el impacto de un accidente ferroviario, conocido como la “Tragedia de Once”, sobre la demanda de viajes del servicio afectado en Argentina. Debido a que el accidente no puede considerarse como un choque ... -
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 ... -
The Value of Free Health Insurance Schemes in Developing Countries
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-12-13)Brazil began the implementation of SUS (Universal Health Insurance) in 1988. To the extent that SUS broke the link between employment contract and health insurance, it may have changed the incentives for individuals to ... -
Human Capital and Financial Development: Firm-Level Interactions and Macroeconomic Implications
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-12-04)Capital-skill complementarity in production implies non-trivial interactions between availability of human capital and financial constraints. Firms that are constrained in their access to finance hire a lower proportion ... -
Perceptions of Police Corruption in Medellín
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-11-06)Conventional wisdom holds that police corruption is a scourge across Latin America, undermining citizens’ trust in and collaboration with police officers. We find that this does not describe police-community relations in ... -
The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-05-02)A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers’ behavioural ... -
Kickbacks and limits on campaign donations
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-03-21)How do campaign contribution limits alter the influence of donors over elected officials? We propose a model to explore this question and test its implications using data from Colombian municipalities. Using a regression ... -
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, ... -
Inside the revolving door: campaign finance, lobbying meetings and public contracts. An investigation for Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-21)This paper explores the relationship between political influence activities by interest groups and benefits obtained in the form of public contracts. We propose an electoral competition model where interest groups make ... -
Criminal Dominance and Campaign Concentration
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-1)There are many journalistic and anecdotal accounts about the prevalence of electoral corrals in Brazil, geographic areas where brokers, politicians, or community leaders influence residents to vote for a specific candidate. ... -
Political connections and misallocation of procurement contracts: evidence from Ecuador
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-12-2)This paper uses detailed ownership information of private firms in Ecuador and the identity of bureaucrats to document the effects of political connections on firm size and the allocation of government contracts. Reduced-form ...
