6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica: Envíos recientes
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Public financial support and innovation in Colombian manufacturing firms
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-05-30)We evaluate the impact of public financial support, both subsidies and credit, on different types of innovation in Colombian industry. We compare it with the effects of financing innovation with own resources and with ... -
Are Taxes Credits Effective in Developing Countries? The Recent Uruguayan Experience
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-05-17)Investment promotion through tax incentives has been a key component of the growth strategies pursued in Uruguay by the last three administrations. A new regime was established, regulated by the Executive Decree 455, which ... -
Capital Specificity, the Distribution of Marginal Products and Aggregate Productivity
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-05-08)This paper studies the role of capital specificity and investment irreversibility on the distribution of marginal products of capital and aggregate TFP. We use a methodology new to the misallocation literature, based on ... -
Characterizing Fuel Choices and Fuelwood Use for Residential Heating and Cooking in Urban Areas of Central-Southern Chile: the Role of Prices, Income, and the Availability of Energy Sources and Technology
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-04-24)This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of fuel choices and intensity of fuelwood use for residential heating and cooking in central-southern Chile. By using information from a sample of 2,761 households in nine ... -
Public-infraestructure and energy-subsidy policies, energy access by the poor and long-term macroeconomic performance
(CAF; Bogotá, 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 ... -
The distortionary effect of size and factor dependent policies: The role of factor substitutability in measuring the impact of a child-care subsidy policy in Chile
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-04-04)In an effort to increase female labor participation in Chile, firms with more than 19 women must pay for childcare for the children of their female employees. We evaluate the effects of such policy using a model that ... -
Distributed Photovoltaic Power Generation: Possibilities, Benefits, and Challenges for a Widespread Application in the Mexican Residential Sector
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-04)Mexico plans to implement a national program to support the adoption of distributed photovoltaic generation (DPVG) among qualified households. The main objectives of such a program would be to reduce the burden of the ... -
Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-04)We provide a novel approach to estimate the deadweight loss of congestion. We implement it for road travel in the city of Bogotá using information from a travel survey and counterfactual travel data generated from Google ... -
Benefits to Elite Schools and the Expected Returns to Education: Evidence from Mexico City
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-03-10)We exploit data on the future earnings students at high school completion expect to receive with and without a college education, together with information on learning achievement and college outcomes, to study the benefits ... -
Informality and Productivity: The Role of Unemployment Insurance Schemes
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-02-22)We study the design of optimal unemployment protection schemes to evaluate its impact on labor markets, welfare and productivity. We consider a life-cycle economies with formal and informal labor markets, unobservable ... -
Public expenditures and debt at the subnational level: Evidence of fiscal smoothing from Argentina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-01-30)This paper uses the particular features of the tax-sharing regime Coparticipación Federal de Impuestos and the fact that some provinces earn hydrocarbon royalties to investigate public expenditures and debt at the subnational ... -
El Fenómeno de los NiNis en América Latina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 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; Bogotá, 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 ... -
Effect of Socio-Economic Stratification on House Value in Bogotá
(CAF; Bogotá, 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 ... -
Internet and Labor Income: Places and Activities in Colombia
(CAF; Bogotá, 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 ... -
High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-12)The aim of this work is to study the relationship between high-skilled workers’ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities. This relationship is not clear at first sight. On the one hand high-skilled workers’ ... -
Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning for Automatic Slum Identification from VHE Imagery
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11-23)Slum identification in urban settlements is a crucial step in the process of formulation of propoor policies. However, the use of conventional methods for slums detection such as field surveys may result time consuming and ... -
Valuation of Public Amenities and Differences in Quality of Life among Latin American Cities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)We use a life satisfaction approach for the valuation of public goods and amenities in Latin American cities. We apply a homogenous database of seventeen cities gathered by the Development Bank of Latin America CAF. Using ... -
What is the Role of Urban Growth on Inequality, and Segregation? The Case of Urban Argentina´s Urban Agglomerations
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)We analyze the relationship between urban sprawl and changing patterns of inequality and segregation in metropolitan areas of Argentina. The existing literature has endeavored to study the determinants of the expansion of ... -
Moving Citizens and Deterring Criminals: Innovation in Public Transport Facilities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)This paper explores the relationship between urban public transportation innovation and crime. In 2004, the city of Medellin in Colombia developed an innovative public transportation system based on cable cars (Metrocable) ...
