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Spatial inequalities in educational opportunities: The role of public policies
(CAF, 2021-12-17)
This paper documents spatial patterns in intergenerational mobility at the top of the educational distribution and assess the role of public policies in increasing educational opportunities. Our analysis relies on novel ...
Bimodal Transport Infrastructure and Regional Development: Evidence from Argentina, 1960 - 1991
(CAF, 2021-04-13)
We estimate the impact of railroad and road infrastructure on local economic development through the study of massive transport infrastructure changes in Argentina. Following a World Bank study, 10,000 kilometers of railroads ...
Misallocated Talent: Teen Pregnancy, Education and Job Sorting in Colombia
(CAF, 2021-04-20)
Policy makers and international organizations often argue that teenage pregnancy affects girls’ life trajectories by, for example, limiting their employment opportunities. These concerns are amplified in regions with high ...
Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru
(CAF, 2021-03-29)
This paper studies how the admission of a student to an elite school changes the schooling outcomes of younger cohorts in the student’s origin school in Peru. Using a sharp regression discontinuity design, the analysis ...
Waits and Delays in Road Freight Transport
(CAF, 2021-05-06)
This paper studies waits and delays in the trucking industry of a developing country: Colombia. We follow 186,000 longhaul trips over 926 routes between 2015 and 2019, using GPS devices located in trucks. We find that ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
Bureaucratic turnover across levels of government
(CAF, 2021-11-19)
The incidence of patronage can vary widely across levels of gov ernment within a country. We show this in the context of Brazil, which has been the focus of most recent research on patronage. In particular, we find that ...
Intergenerational mobility in education in Latin America
(CAF, 2021-12-15)
This document provides a comprehensive analysis of intergenerational mobility in Latin America, focusing on the association between parental education and the education of their children. It updates the estimates provided ...