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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 ...
High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities
(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’ ...
The impact of lowering the payroll tax on informality in Colombia
(2016)
The Colombian government recently reformed the tax law by reducing payroll contributions from 29.5% to 16% and substituting them with a profit tax. The law was passed in December 2012, and two years later the informality ...
Public financial support and innovation in Colombian manufacturing firms
(CAF, 2017-05-30)
We evaluate the impact of public financial support, both subsidies and credit, on different types of innovation in Colombian industry. We compare it with the effects of financing innovation with own resources and with ...
Inequidades en Salud en América Latina y el Caribe: Salud Infantil, Adolescente, Reproductiva, Síndrome Metabólico y Salud Mental
(CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, 2023-12-19)
Este estudio examina la desigualdad en salud en América Latina y el Caribe (LAC). En primer lugar, se describe cómo las transformaciones demográficas han modificado la carga de enfermedad en los últimos 30 años. Inicialmente ...
Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá
(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 ...