Oct 2022
En los últimos años, los países latinoamericanos han sufrido actos de corrupción que han afectado las percepciones de la ciudadanía en la efectividad del gobierno. Utilizando experimentos…
Oct 2022
Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s…
Oct 2022
This paper investigates the potential impact of extended school days in reducing teenage fertility. We study the Jornada Escolar Extendida program, which doubled the school-day length from 4 to 8…
Sep 2022
The study of the predictability of exchange rates has been a very recurring theme on the economics literature for decades, and very often is not possible to beat a random walk prediction,…
Sep 2022
We investigated the predictability of the Brazilian exchange rate at High Frequency (1, 5 and 15 minutes), using local and global economic variables as predictors. In addition to the Linear…
Sep 2022
The relationship between Korea and Latin American and the Caribbean has come a long way. As the two economies embraced trade with one another in the early 1990s, their connection went from being…
Sep 2022
The relationship between Korea and Latin American and the Caribbean has come a long way. As the two economies embraced trade with one another in the early 1990s, their connection went from being…
Sep 2022
Esta nota técnica describe los aspectos conceptuales y metodológicos del diseño e implementación de un estudio experimental de campo conducido entre 2021 y 2022 para medir el tamaño y determinantes…
Sep 2022
Este documento propone, a partir de la adaptación y unificación de metodologías de análisis de redes, una herramienta de mapeo, identificación y medición de las relaciones entre actores de…
Sep 2022
Este trabajo tiene como principal objetivo discutir la viabilidad económica que tendría la instalación de un banco de baterías con fines de arbitraje intertemporal. Para términos del sistema…
Sep 2022
This study analyzes how the energy transition might change gender bias in power-generating industries. To this end, this paper employs a sample of 102 renewable energy generation companies from six…
Sep 2022
Durante las últimas décadas Chile ha sido resaltado como ejemplo a seguir en el manejo y solvencia de su política fiscal. Ese comportamiento había permitido reducir la deuda pública y mantener una…
Sep 2022
Hundreds of millions of microenterprises in emerging economies face increased competition from the entry and expansion of large firms that offer similar products. This paper studies how one of the…
Sep 2022
This publication reports on some of the health challenges facing cities. It aims to serve as a guide for public managers and decision makers optimize the great potential of cities to improve the well…
Sep 2022
In Paraguay, the earning gap between men and women is widest in the informal sector, especially among groups with less education and from rural areas. But there is a heterogeneous income gap that…
Sep 2022
En Paraguay se puede apreciar que la brecha de ingresos laborales entre hombres y mujeres está concentrada principalmente en el sector informal, específicamente en grupos con menores niveles…
Sep 2022
El primer objetivo de este trabajo ha sido actualizar para 2021 la estimación que hicimos del impacto de la crisis del COVID en la pobreza y desigualdad que existe en Panamá. Los resultados muestran…
Sep 2022
This paper analyzes the relationship between the presence of LGBTQI students in the class-room and the prevalence of violence in the school setting. We rely on a representative sample of secondary…
Sep 2022
While there is evidence of gender differences in leaders behavior, less is known about what drives these gaps. This paper uncovers the role of electoral incentives. Using a close election regression…
Sep 2022
This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study for which information was collected through a survey conducted in peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima between October and November 2021…