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Educational Mobility Across Three Generations in Latin American Countries
(CAF, 2023-07-27)
This paper presents new evidence on educational mobility across
three generations in six Latin American countries (LAC). Combining survey information with national census data we build a
data set with 50,000 triads of ...
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 ...
Deforestation, Institutions, and Property Rights: Evidence from land titling to indigenous peoples and local communities in Ecuador
(2022-12-21)
Deforestation is a matter of pressing global concern, contributing to declining ecosystem services, biodiversity loss, and ultimately climate change through growing emissions. We evaluate the effect of assigning property ...
Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements
(CAF, 2022-07-11)
We study how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower prefer-ential margins when the bloc takes ...
Wealth in Latin America
(CAF, 2022-05-16)
This paper presents harmonized indicators for household wealth, its components, and its determinants (including intergenerational mobility) in four Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay), using Spain ...
Socioeconomic Gradients in Test Scores across Latin American and the Caribbean
(CAF, 2022-05-05)
In this paper we document gaps in math and reading achievement between children whose mothers have completed at least upper secondary education and those who have not, using test scores from third and sixth graders across ...
Intergenerational earnings mobility and macroeconomic shocks: Evidence based on administrative records
(CAF, 2022-04-26)
This paper provides novel evidence on trends in intergenerational earnings mobility in a developing country and explores some transmission mechanisms associated with the characteristics of the labor market. Using a novel ...
Size, Position and Length in Value Chains in Latin America
(CAF, 2022-03-25)
In this article, I develop a framework that divides global value chains into regional and extra-regional and studies the participation of Latin American countries in international fragmentation of production along 25 years ...
What a difference a full day makes: Evidence from new schools in Fortaleza
(CAF, 2022-03-18)
Although longer school days are in increasing supply, a lack of consensus about their effectiveness persists. Motivated by this gap, this paper studies the effect of enrolling in a new set of full-time secondary schools ...
Envejecimiento y cuidados: principales características para cinco países de América Latina
(CAF, 2022-03-08)
En este trabajo analizamos las características de los adultos mayores en situación de dependencia, las estrategias de cuidados y el perfil de las personas cuidadoras, para cinco países de América Latina: Chile, Colombia, ...