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Duque, Juan Carlos (2)Akbar, Prottoy (1)Alves, Guillermo (1)Arrosa, María Laura (1)Belmar, José (1)Betancourt, Alejandro (1)Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo (1)Ch, R. (1)Chávez, Carlos (1)De Mello, Joao (1)... View More

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City Size, Distance and Formal Employment Creation 

O´Clery, Neave; Lora, Eduardo (CAF, 2016-10-09)
Cities thrive through the diversity of their occupants because the availability of complementary skills enables firms in the formal sector to grow, delivering increasingly sophisticated products and services. The appearance ...
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Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light 

Ch, R.; Martin, D.; Vargas, J. (CAF, 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 ...
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Valuation of Public Amenities and Differences in Quality of Life among Latin American Cities 

Arrosa, María Laura; Gandelman, Néstor (CAF, 2016-11)
We use a life satisfaction approach for the valuation of public goods and amenities in Latin American cities. We apply a homogenous database of seventeen cities gathered by the Development Bank of Latin America CAF. Using ...
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Determinants of Slum Formation: The Role of Local Politics and Policies 

Alves, Guillermo (CAF, 2018-01)
One-third of the developing world’s population lives in urban slums and the absolute number of slum residents grew from 650 million in 1990 to 863 million in 2012. Although negative impacts of slum living conditions on ...
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High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities 

Garrido, Nicolás; Vargas, Miguel (CAF, 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’ ...
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Effect of Socio-Economic Stratification on House Value in Bogotá 

Gallego, Juan; Montoya, Sergio; Sepúlveda, Carlos (CAF, 2016-12-24)
This paper investigates the impact of urban fiscal policies on housing value. We use a focalization system in Bogotá where certain subsidies and taxes are targeted based on a classification of houses according to external ...
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Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá 

Akbar, Prottoy; Duranton, Gilles (CAF, 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 ...
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Characterizing Fuel Choices and Fuelwood Use for Residential Heating and Cooking in Urban Areas of Central-Southern Chile: the Role of Prices, Income, and the Availability of Energy Sources and Technology 

Jaime, Mónica; Chávez, Carlos; Gómez, Walter (CAF, 2017-04-24)
This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of fuel choices and intensity of fuelwood use for residential heating and cooking in central-southern Chile. By using information from a sample of 2,761 households in nine ...
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Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning for Automatic Slum Identification from VHE Imagery 

Duque, Juan Carlos; Patino, Jorge Eduardo; Betancourt, Alejandro (CAF, 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 ...
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Local economic development. Some cities develop more than others: specialization, human capital and institutions 

Storper, Michael (CAF, 2009)
Why does a certain metropolitan area grow more than another? The answer to this question has evaded much of the considerable body of scholarship on the topic. One problem may be that some of the frameworks that drive ...
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