06. Documentos de trabajo: Envíos recientes
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Education, signaling and the allocation of entrepreneurial skills
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-02)We assess the allocative importance of education when workers can choose to self-employ. To do so, we build a model combining educational choices with the labor market and selfemployment. Education can increase workers' ... -
What explains output recoveries in developing and emerging market economies after the global financial crisis?
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-09-26)This paper presents a systematic assessment of the macroeconomic factors associated with differences in GDP dynamics in emerging markets in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. We implement a Bayesian Model ... -
Rules vs. Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-08-18)In this paper, I use a unique empirical setting that allows me to compare the performance of teachers hired in a discretionary process led by the teachers’ union in Mexico with the performance of those hired on the basis ... -
Taking One for the Team: Shocks at Destination and Households' Supply of Migrants
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-08-9)We study how unemployment shocks in the United States affect Mexican households’ migration decisions. We emphasize households at origin (as op-posed to individuals) as the decisionmaking units for migration decisions. We ... -
On the middle 70%. The impact of fiscal policy on the emerging middle class in Latin America using Commitment to Equity
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-08-05)This paper analyzes the effects of indirect and direct taxes, as well as monetary and in-kind transfers on the income distribution in nine Latin American countries applying the CEQ methodology and using household and ... -
Trade Integration in Colombia: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Study with New Exporter Dynamics
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-08-01)We study Colombia’s trade integration over a 30 year period through the lens of GE model in which non-exporters have access to a risky exporting technology and exporters must invest in accumulating a better exporting ... -
Crecimiento verde en el sector energético y sus efectos en el desempeño económico general: desarrollo y aplicación de un modelo híbrido para Colombia
(CAF; Bogotá, 2017-07-01)El cambio climático es uno de los mayores retos de la actualidad, siendo un tema de primera línea para los países y gobiernos comprometidos con generar políticas, materializadas en estrategias de desarrollo compatible con ... -
The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-05-31)I use detailed applications data to document a case in which, contrary to prevailing concerns, increasing school stratification by ability co-existed with stable stratification by family income: Mexico City public high ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Asociación Público-Privada en Infraestructuras Energéticas: Experiencias en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)Las infraestructuras energéticas en América Latina merecen un estudio particular en lo que se refiere a la APP. Sus distintos marcos regulatorios y grados de madurez institucional y operacional, la hacen contar con un mapa ...
