06. Documentos de trabajo: Envíos recientes

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    • Estados ágeis na América Latina: a coordenação dentro do setor público como fator chave das estratégias de melhoria regulatória e o caso do Brasil 

      Albuquerque, Kélvia; López Azumendi, Sebastián (CAF; Caracas, 2022-03-02)
      A reforma regulatória é uma mudança estrutural que precisa da geração de consensos e da liderança estratégica a partir do centro do governo. O Brasil é um bom exemplo da relevância da coordenação para uma mudança regulatória ...

    • Nota de Productividad Colombia: Desafíos de la productividad en el sector agropecuario 

      Camacho, Carolina; Toledo, Manuel (CAF; Caracas, 2022-02-23)
      Este trabajo explora los determinantes de la productividad del sector agropecuario colombiano. La principal hipótesis evaluada empíricamente es que la elevada informalidad de la tenencia de la tierra es un elemento central ...

    • DIGINTEGRITY: Digitally transforming the fight against corruption 

      Cetina, Camilo; Cruz Manrique, Paula (CAF; Caracas, 2022-02-23)
      The unprecedented corruption scandals in Latin America that have come to light in the last decade suggest that the region is facing structural challenges that combine endemic corruption with institutional weakness. The ...

    • Estados ágiles en América Latina: la transformación digital de los reguladores económicos 

      López Azumendi, Sebastián; Roitman, Mauricio (CAF; Caracas, 2022-02-10)
      Los reguladores económicos son probablemente las entidades de gobierno que más datos utilizan para la toma de decisiones. De ahí que su principal desafío sea reducir las asimetrías de información con las empresas que regulan ...

    • Expectations about Returns to Education. The Role of Parental and Youths’ Characteristics 

      Novella, Rafael; Repetto, Andrea (CAF; Caracas, 2022-01-17)
      Investing in human capital requires, among others, access and capacity to process information. This paper focuses on understanding the role of expected returns to education in determining schooling decisions. Using data ...

    • La movilidad educativa intergeneracional en el siglo XX en América Latina y el Caribe 

      Berniell, Lucila; Bonavida, Cristian; de la Mata, Dolores; Schargrodsky, Ernesto (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)
      En este trabajo aportamos nuevas mediciones de movilidad educativa intergeneracional para América Latina y el Caribe a partir de datos censales armonizados para 22 países. Producimos estimaciones de medidas de movildiad ...

    • Medición de los niveles de productividad de las ciudades en América Latina 

      Alves, Guillermo (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)
      Este documento presenta datos sobre productividad a nivel de ciudad para 279 ciudades de 12 países de América Latina. Para esto se utilizan los datos de salario horario de las encuestas de hogares oficiales de los países. ...

    • Motherhood and the Allocation of Talent 

      Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; de la Mata, Dolores; Edo, María; Fawaz, Yarine; Machado, Matilde P. (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)
      In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market beyond the well-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective ...

    • Motherhood, Pregnancy or Marriage Effects 

      Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; de la Mata, Dolores; Edo, María; Fawaz, Yarine; Machado, Matilde P. (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-28)
      The existence of large child penalties on women’s labor market outcomes has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (including ...

    • GUIA DE PREPARAÇÃO PARA ESTRATÉGIAS GOVTECH 

      Zapata, Enrique (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-24)
      A urgência por implantar ferramentas digitais e de dados em resposta aos impactos econômicos e sociais constitui uma oportunidade única para avançar na transformação digital do setor público. Nós, do CAF -Banco de ...

    • Govtech readiness assessment guide 

      Autor desconocido (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-24)
      The urgency to deploy data and digital tools as a response to social and economic impacts presents a unique opportunity to advance the digital transformation of the public sector and digital innovation of government. At ...

    • Going subnational: wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay 

      Baez, Maria Josefina; Brassiolo, Pablo; Estrada, Ricardo; Fajardo, Gustavo (CAF; Caracas, 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 ...

    • Who attract the public sector compensation schemes?: evidence from Latin America 

      Álvarez-Parra, Fernando; Brassiolo, Pablo; Fajardo, Gustavo (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-22)
      Compensation schemes tend to differ markedly between public and private sector jobs, which can affect the relative preferences of potential employees towards those jobs. We explore this through two informational experiments ...

    • Spatial inequalities in educational opportunities: The role of public policies 

      Katzkowicz, Noemí; Querejeta, Martina; Rosá, Tatiana (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-17)
      This paper documents spatial patterns in intergenerational mobility at the top of the educational distribution and assess the role of public policies in increasing educational opportunities. Our analysis relies on novel ...

    • Movilidad ocupacional en América Latina 

      Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; Neidhöfer, Guido (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-16)
      La persistencia de desigualdades entre generaciones representa un tópico de sumo interés para las sociedades. Mientras que la mayoría de este tipo de estudios se concentra en desigualdades educativas, en este trabajo ...

    • Surnames and Social Rank: Long-term Traits of Social Mobility in Colombia and Chile 

      Jaramillo-Echeverri, Juliana; Álvarez, Andrés; Bro, Naim (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-16)
      In the last two years, Colombia and Chile have witnessed strong social protests, characterized by slogans against inequality and the lack of social mobility. In this study we propose a comparative study on social mobility ...

    • Does it Matter Where You Grow up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean 

      Muñoz, Ercio (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-15)
      I study whether the observed differences in intergenerational educational mobility across regions in Latin America and the Caribbean are due to the sorting of families or the effect of grow ing up in these different places. ...

    • Intergenerational mobility in education in Latin America 

      Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-15)
      This document provides a comprehensive analysis of intergenerational mobility in Latin America, focusing on the association between parental education and the education of their children. It updates the estimates provided ...

    • Teen childbearing in Latin America: the mother-daughter link 

      Machado, Matilde P.; Mora, Ricardo; Olivo, Karen (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-14)
      Using DHS data for six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region, we estimate the relation between a mother’s teenage childbearing and that of her daughter’s. Our results show that restricting the estimating ...

    • Medición de los determinantes de la productividad en Ciudades de América Latina 

      Alves, Guillermo; Carreras, Enrique; López, Pablo (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-14)
      El presente documento desarrolla un conjunto de indicadores para medir los determinantes de la productividad en las ciudades de América Latina. Su objetivo es caracterizar los determinantes que pueden ser intervenidos desde ...