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Spillovers of health education at school on parents´ physical activity
(CAF, 2012)
To prevent modern health conditions like obesity, cancer, cardiovascular illness, and diabetes, which have reached epidemic-like proportions in recent decades, many health experts argue that students should receive Health ...
Motherhood and the missing women in the labor market
(CAF, 2018-09-06)
Motherhood currently stands out as a key determinant of the gender gap in labor market outcomes. Studies identifying the effect of children have mostly focused in Europe and the US. These results may not be extrapolated ...
Occupational Choice and Investments in Human Capital in Informal Economies
(CAF, 2017-12-12)
Countries di er greatly in their levels of schooling and also in their rates of entrepreneurship. At the same time, the share of the so-called \shadow economy" -informal economic activities- is very large in some countries ...
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 ...
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 ...
Starting on the right track? The effects of rst job experience on short and long term labor market outcomes
(CAF, 2017-12-04)
For young job seekers barriers to labor market entry are high, especially in developing countries were information frictions are large. Can first job experience impact such barriers and have perdurable effects? This paper ...