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Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
(CAF, 2017-11-15)
Customs are often prone to corruption because it concentrates a lot of discretionary power in the hand of custom agents who take decisions with high economic stakes for the firms, providing an opportunity for custom agents ...
Education, signaling and the allocation of entrepreneurial skills
(CAF, 2017-10-02)
We assess the allocative importance of education when workers can choose to self-employ. To do so, we build a model combining educational choices with the labor market and selfemployment. Education can increase workers' ...
Political connections and misallocation of procurement contracts: evidence from Ecuador
(CAF, 2018-12-2)
This paper uses detailed ownership information of private firms in Ecuador and the identity of bureaucrats to document the effects of political connections on firm size and the allocation of government contracts. Reduced-form ...
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 ...
Capital Controls and Firm Performance: The Effects of the Chilean Encaje
(CAF, 2017-11-30)
This paper studies the effects of the capital controls imposed by Chile between 1991 and 1998,
i.e. the Chilean encaje, on firms' production, investment and exporting decisions. We use a
general equilibrium model with ...
Local externalities in labor markets: congestion and information flow among peers
(CAF, 2020-12-16)
We explore local externalities in labor markets, exploiting the random assignment of a large-scale internship program in Argentina. Examining the probability of registered employment in the 12 months after the program, we ...
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 ...
Internet and Labor Income: Places and Activities in Colombia
(CAF, 2016-12-21)
Despite the literature in the richest countries about the positive correlation between Internet and income, there is still an open question about the utility of this technology the developing world. This paper uses Propensity ...
Estimating the nature of political corruption: evidence from a policy experiment in Brazil
(CAF, 2018-11-25)
This paper proposes a test to estimate the nature of political corruption in developing countries: embezzlement by self enriching politicians versus corruption that originates as a quid-pro-quo from campaign contributions. ...
Evaluación de políticas públicas de apoyo a la innovación sobre la productividad de las empresas manufactureras y de servicios en Colombia
(CAF, 2017-12-01)
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar el efecto de los instrumentos de apoyo público a la innovación sobre el desempeño productivo y la inversión en innovación de las empresas manufactureras y de servicios ...