Browsing 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica by Issue Date
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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Urban Planning and Local Development: Evidence from Brazil
(2025-12-18)This paper studies the effects of mandated urban planning introduced by Brazil’s 2001 City Statute, which required municipalities with at least 20,000 inhabitants to adopt a master plan. Exploiting this population threshold ... -
How Do Climate Adaptation Policies Affect Deforestation? Evidence from a Large-Scale Water Policy
(2025-12-12)This paper examines the effects of a climate adaptation policy on production and environmental outcomes in the context of Brazil’s semiarid region, the country’s poorest and most drought prone region. The large-scale, ... -
Women in Office: The Impact of Female Politicians on Gender-Based Violence Reporting
(2025-11-14)Gender-based violence in the U.S. is a silent epidemic. Twenty percent of women experience rape, yet only one in three reports it. Using FBI data and a regression discontinuity design, we examine the impact of female U.S. ... -
Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects
(2025-10-31)This paper explores an information intervention designed and implemented within a school assignment mechanism in Mexico City. Through a randomized experiment, we show that providing a subset of applicants with feedback ... -
Lifting Each Other Up: How Cooperative Firms Foster Local Development
(2025-10-30)Do cooperative firms foster local economic development? This paper examines Mexico, assembling a new georeferenced panel dataset at the 10 × 10 km grid-cell level for 2015–2023. Across multiple research designs, we ... -
Lasting Lessons: The Long-Term Impacts of School-Based Financial Education
(2025-10-30)This study experimentally examines the long-term effects of school-based financial education, analyzing data from nearly 60,000 individuals in Peru, seven years post-intervention. Treated students increased their total ... -
Women, Motherhood, and Structural Transformation. Insights from Rural Latin America
(2025-09-18)Structural transformation—the shift from agriculture to industry and services—is key to economic development and can reshape labor market gender gaps. Yet little is known about how this process has unfolded in rural Latin ... -
Geography and Agricultural Productivity: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean
(2025-09-09)This working paper quantifies the role of current land quality and geographic conditions as well as projected future climate change for agricultural productivity differences across and within Latin American and Caribbean ... -
The Asymmetric Impact of Trade Shocks on Rural and Urban Areas: Evidence from Chile
(2025-09-09)This paper examines the causal effects of trade shocks on local labor markets (LLMs), with a focus on the rural–urban divide. In particular, it analyzes the impact of China’s integration into global trade on Chilean LLMs ... -
Grados de ruralidad: una propuesta de medición para Argentina
(2025-09-09)Este trabajo contribuye a la medición de “grados de ruralidad” en Argentina. El trabajo propone un índice multidimensional relativo de ruralidad que integra la clasificación tradicional de áreas de INDEC con datos censales ...
