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Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
(CAF, 2017-11-08)
In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ...
The Political Economy of Slum Growth: Evidence from Brazil
(2023)
One-fourth of the world’s urban population lives in slums and the number of slum residents grew from 650 million in 1990 to 1 billion in 2018. Existing explanations for slum growth focus on rural-urban migration and poverty. ...
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 ...
Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for and Old Question
(CAF, 2021-09-07)
The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between inequality and crime, with a focus on the Latin America and Caribbean region.We find a significant, positive, and robust association between these variables. ...
Savings Groups Reduce Vulberability but have Mixed Effect on Financial Inclusion
(CAF, 2021-01-08)
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and ...
Gender Gaps in Labor Informality: The Motherhood Effect
(CAF, 2020-12-15)
We estimate the short- and long-run labor market impacts of parenthood in a developing country, Chile, based on an eventstudy approach around the birth of the first child. We assess mechanisms behind these effects based ...