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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 ...
Efectos de un accidente ferroviario sobre la demanda del servicio: El caso de la tragedia de Once en Argentina
(CAF, 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 ...
Perceptions of Police Corruption in Medellín
(CAF, 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 ...
Inequality, Crime, and the Long Run Legacy of Slavery
(CAF, 2016-12-25)
This paper investigates the relationship between economic inequality and crime in Colombian municipalities. Following recent scholarly research that suggests that the legacy of slavery is largely manifest in persistent ...
Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Crash of Ponzi Schemes
(CAF, 2016-03-14)
In November 2008, Colombian authorities dismantled a network of Ponzi schemes, making hundreds of thousands of investors lose tens of millions of dollars throughout the country. Using original data on the geographical ...
Domestic Violence and Divorce Law: When Divorce Threats Become Credible
(CAF, 2014-10-01)
This paper investigates whether lowering the cost of divorce can reduce domestic violence. The cost of divorce influences the bargaining position of spouses, and thus, their behavior within the marriage. This study takes ...
Electoral Consequences of Violent Crime: Evidence from Venezuela
(CAF, 2014-05)
To what extent to do voters hold political incumbents accountable for policy outcomes? This paper considers retrospective voting in the context of violent crime. Using a novel panel data set on county -and neighborhood- ...
Crime Perceptions and Reality in Latin America
(CAF, 2014)
We show that perceptions of insecurity are strongly correlated with victimization at the individual level and suggest that the reason this relationship is usually not uncovered in simple cross country studies is that they ...
Police reform, training and crime: experimental evidence from colombia's plan cuadrantes
(CAF, 2013)
The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities ...
Crime Protection Investment Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from the City of Buenos Aires
(CAF, 2013)
This paper studies spillover effects among potential crime victims from investment in observable protection technologies. Criminals and potential victims interact in a frictional market for offenses. Externalities within ...