06. Documentos de trabajo: Envíos recientes
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Predicting Individual Wellbeing Through Test Scores: Evidence from a National Assessment in Mexico
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-05)We construct two longitudinal datasets that record students’ test scores in a national standardized exam in Mexico and track students from the end of primary (Grade 6) to the end of lower (Grade 9) and upper (Grade 12) ... -
La violencia de género en América Latina: diagnóstico, determinantes y opciones de política
(Caracas, 2018-01-24)En los últimos años, se ha generado una demanda desde la sociedad civil y los gobiernos de América Latina para identificar los determinantes y las opciones de políticas que permitan reducir la violencia contra la mujer. ... -
Who benefits when inertia is reduced? Competition, quality and returns to skill in health care markets
(CAF; Caracas, 2018)Increased competition may lead to incentives for firms to increase quality by incorporating higher quality inputs. This is particularly relevant in health care markets, since the supply of high quality physicians is ... -
Measuring Imperfect Competition in Product and Labor Markets. An Empirical Analysis using Firm-level Production Data
(CAF; California, 2018-01)In this paper, we develop a simple theoretical model that allows us to disentangle empirically the extent of imperfect competition in product and labor markets using plant-level production data. The model assumes ... -
Determinants of Slum Formation: The Role of Local Politics and Policies
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-01)One-third of the developing world’s population lives in urban slums and the absolute number of slum residents grew from 650 million in 1990 to 863 million in 2012. Although negative impacts of slum living conditions on ... -
Prácticas laborales como mecanismo para mejorar la empleabilidad de los jóvenes: Lecciones para el caso argentino
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-12-14)El desempleo y la informalidad son más altos para los jóvenes que para los adultos. Las causas detrás de este problema se relacionan con las barreras al primer acceso al mercado del trabajo y pueden clasificarse en dos ... -
Occupational Choice and Investments in Human Capital in Informal Economies
(CAF; Argentina, 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 ... -
The impact of the minimum wage on the destruction and creation of products
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 2017-12-06)We study the impact of changes in the legal minimum wage on the creation and destruction of products at the firm level. This can be a relevant way for increasing firm productivity and for explaining why the raises in the ... -
Starting on the right track? The effects of rst job experience on short and long term labor market outcomes
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 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 ... -
Evaluación de políticas públicas de apoyo a la innovación sobre la productividad de las empresas manufactureras y de servicios en Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 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 ... -
Capital Controls and Firm Performance: The Effects of the Chilean Encaje
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 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 ... -
Programas de Financiamiento Productivo a pymes, acceso al crédito y desempeño de las firmas: Evidencia de Argentina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-30)En Argentina se han implementado, en los últimos años, un importante abanico de políticas de financiamiento público hacia las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas. Sin embargo, hasta el momento, no se han realizado trabajos ... -
Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Effciency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 2017-11-20)We estimate the impact of participation in Chile Crece Contigo (ChCC), Chile’s flagship earlylife health and social welfare program, on neonatal health outcomes. We use administrative birth data matched to social benefits ... -
Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 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 ... -
Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-08)In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ... -
Input-output linkages and sector-specific distortions in the Latin American development problem
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-03)In this paper, I analyze the Latin American development problem using a model with input-output linkages, sectorial productivity gaps, and sector-specific distortions. I provide a characterization of the sectorial linkages ... -
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment in Brazil
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-16)During the economic boom of the early 2000s, most Latin American countries increased their minimum wages. In Brazil, the real minimum wage increased by upwards of 60 percent from 2003 through 2012. In this paper, we take ... -
The Causes and Consequences of the Spatial Organization of Agriculture in Brazil
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-10)Why are there vast differences in agricultural activity across space? How do these differences shape the aggregate impact of agricultural shocks? To address these questions, I build a quantitative general equilibrium model ... -
Financial Frictions, Trade, and Misallocation
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-07)We investigate the extent to which financial frictions shape the aggregate effects of a trade liberalization through their impact on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) and capital misallocation. We study a small ... -
The Life-cycle Growth of Plants in Colombia: Fundamentals vs. Distortions
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 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, ...
