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Impact evaluation of innovation policy in Brazil
(2018-10-22)
This paper aims to assess the innovation policy in Brazil after the edition of the innovation law, in 2004, and the fiscal subsidies to innovation law, in 2005. We use data from the Brazilian Innovation Survey and from the ...
Efectos de un accidente ferroviario sobre la demanda del servicio: El caso de la tragedia de Once en Argentina
(CAF, 2019-12-19)
Este trabajo evalúa el impacto de un accidente ferroviario, conocido como la “Tragedia de Once”, sobre la demanda de viajes del servicio afectado en Argentina. Debido a que el accidente no puede considerarse como un choque ...
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 ...
El Fenómeno de los NiNis en América Latina
(CAF, 2016-12-30)
En los últimos años, y en todos los países de la región, se ha ido incrementando la preocupación por la situación de los jóvenes que ni se encuentran insertos en el sistema educativo ni se han integrado al mercado laboral ...
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 ...
Will you marry me, later? Age-of-marriage laws and child marriage in Mexico
(CAF, 2020-11-03)
We provide empirical evidence on the impact of raising the minimum age of marriage to 18 years old on child marriage, early motherhood, and school enrollment in Mexico. Using a difference-in-differences model that takes ...
Government transparency and political clientelism: Evidence from randomized anti-corruption audits in Brazil
(CAF, 2019-01-31)
Political clientelism is considered a fundamental reason why politicians are not accountable and responsive to their constituencies. In this working paper, we study whether transparency initiatives – more specifically, ...
Effect of Socio-Economic Stratification on House Value in Bogotá
(CAF, 2016-12-24)
This paper investigates the impact of urban fiscal policies on housing value. We use a focalization system in Bogotá where certain subsidies and taxes are targeted based on a classification of houses according to external ...
Microdatos para el estudio de la productividad en América Latina
(CAF, 2018-07)
La creciente disponibilidad de microdatos empresariales ha permitido a los investigadores indagar sobre el papel que la heterogeneidad entre las empresas o establecimientos productivos juega para explicar la productividad ...
The Life-cycle Growth of Plants in Colombia: Fundamentals vs. Distortions
(CAF, 2017-10-05)
We take advantage of rich microdata on Colombian manufacturing establishments to decompose growth over an establishment’s life cycle into that attributable to fundamental sources of idiosyncratic growth ̶ physical productivity, ...