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Date issued: 10月 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Robalino, Juan;Mullan, Katrina;Piaggio, Matías;Guzmán, Marisol

We evaluate whether floods and landslides are more likely when rain falls inside versus outside protected areas (PAs). We use monthly municipality data for the period 2000-2015 in Guatemala and…

Date issued: 10月 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cavalcanti, Tiago;Kaboski, Joseph P.;Martins, Bruno;Santos, Cezar

Most aggregate theories of financial frictions model credit available at a cost of financing equal to the savings rate but rationed. However, using a comprehensive firm-level credit registry, we…

Date issued: 10月 2023
Author(s): Sabogal-Cardona, Orlando;Oviedo, Daniel;Scholl, Lynn

App-based ride-hailing is no longer a new transportation phenomenon. Yet much remains unknown about its influence on user behaviors associated with the decarbonization of urban mobility, such as the…

Date issued: 10月 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Brunori, Paolo;Ferreira, Francisco H. G.;Neidhöfer, Guido

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and…

Date issued: 10月 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino;Narita, Renata

This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to…

Date issued: 10月 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alvaredo, Facundo;Bourguignon, François;Ferreira, Francisco H. G.;Lustig, Nora

Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in…

Date issued: 10月 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bancalari, Antonella;Berlinski, Samuel;Buitrago, Giancarlo;García, María Fernanda;Mata, Dolores de la;Vera-Hernández, Marcos

Health constitutes a fundamental aspect of our well-being. It is also a key factor in determining our contribution to market and non-market output. Health inequality refers to the unequal realization…

Date issued: 10月 2023
Author(s): Alfonso, Mariana;Bagolle, Alexandre;Baptista, Dulce;Bos, María Soledad;Fazekas, Andreas;Schwartz, Liora;Vogt-Schilb, Adrien;Urquidi, Manuel

To contain the climate crisis and meet the Paris Agreements goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by 2050, countries around the world need to undergo deep socio-economic…

Date issued: 10月 2023
Author(s): Alfonso, Mariana;Bagolle, Alexandre;Baptista, Dulce;Bos, María Soledad;Fazekas, Andreas;Schwartz, Liora;Vogt-Schilb, Adrien;Urquidi, Manuel

Para contener la crisis climática y cumplir el objetivo del Acuerdo de París de limitar el calentamiento global a 1,5 C por encima de los niveles preindustriales para 2050, los países de todo el…

Date issued: 10月 2023
Author(s): Aguerrondo, Inés;Cortelezzi, María

Este documento realiza un analisis de antecedentes y revisa experiencias de programas para presentar buenas practicas y referencias relevantes a ser consideradas por otras organizaciones y actores…