Estrada, Ricardo
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The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity
(CAF, 2022-06-22)
This paper studies the impact of high dismissal protection on
bureaucratic turnover and productivity in the context of public
school teachers in Chile. We take advantage of a law that required
education administrators ...
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 ...
Going subnational: wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay
(CAF, 2021-12-22)
Workers at subnational governments play a prominent role in the delivery of public services in most countries. Yet, information about their remuneration is scarce. Using data for Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay, we document ...
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 ...
Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary
(CAF, 2021-10-19)
We show that bureaucrats can exploit discretion in hiring decisions to engage in forms of favoritism that hinder organizational performance. We do this in the context of the Mexican federal judiciary. The arrival of a judge ...
Políticas para reducir las brechas educativas en la pospandemia
(CAF, 2021-08-17)
El cierre sin precedentes de las escuelas en casi todos los países y el efecto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en los ingresos y el bienestar de las familias han afectado negativamente los aprendizajes y la trayectoria educativa ...
Pension and healthcare systems in Latin America: Challenges posed by aging, technological change, and informality
(CAF, 2021-06-07)
Social protection in the 21st century in Latin America will be strongly conditioned by labor informality, automation and digitalization of production processes and, especially, by the accelerated aging of the population. ...
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 ...
RED 2020: Los sistemas de pensiones y salud en América Latina. Los desafíos del envejecimiento, el cambio tecnológico y la informalidad
(CAF, 2020-11-02)
La protección social de siglo XXI en los países de la región estará fuertemente condicionada por la informalidad laboral, la automatización y digitalización de los procesos productivos, y, especialmente, por el envejecimiento ...
Skills and selection into teaching: Evidence from Latin America
(CAF, 2020-08-12)
This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have very low levels of cognitive skills. This skills deficit is the result of both low levels of competencies among the population and a gap between ...