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More to Live for: Health Investment Responses to Expected Retirement Wealth in Chile
(CAF, 2019-12-18)
A poorly understood but important way that economic conditions influence health is through the incentives that they create for health investments. In this paper, we study how individuals’ current health investments respond ...
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 ...
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 ...
La violencia de género en América Latina: diagnóstico, determinantes y opciones de política
(2018-01-24)
En los últimos años, se ha generado una demanda desde la sociedad civil y los gobiernos de América Latina para identificar los determinantes y las opciones de políticas que permitan reducir la violencia contra la mujer. ...
Distribución espacial del empleo formal en la ciudad autónoma de buenos aires: un diagnóstico a partir de registros administrativos
(CAF, 2018-12-01)
A partir de información geográfica detallada del universo de establecimientos productivos y del empleo registrado en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires este trabajo documenta la localización del empleo en la ciudad en el ...
Public-infraestructure and energy-subsidy policies, energy access by the poor and long-term macroeconomic performance
(CAF, 2017-04-24)
This paper presents the main set-up and long-run results from a simple deterministic version of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy in Kawamura (2017). The model assumes two types of ...
Del dato administrativo de firmas al dato estadístico: desafíos a vencer en América Latina
(CAF, 2018-10-20)
El diseño, la implementación y la evaluación de las políticas públicas para el fomento de la productividad requieren cada vez más información estadística oportuna y de calidad. En los últimos veinte años, y especialmente ...
Does it Matter Where You Grow up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean
(CAF, 2021-12-15)
I study whether the observed differences in intergenerational educational mobility across regions in Latin America and the Caribbean are due to the sorting of families or the effect of grow ing up in these different places. ...
Workfare and crime: evidence for Argentina
(CAF, 2011)
This paper investigates the effect of introducing a massive workfare program on property crimes. In order to circumvent the endogeneity problem common to joint factors determining crime and demand for workfare we make use ...
The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: a synthesis of results
(CAF, 2012)
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in ...