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Date issued: 10月 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cabezas, Eduardo;Navarro, Fabián;Pérez, Danny;Torres, Gina

La presente investigacion desarrolla una metodologa para la estimacion de las especies monetarias en circulacion (EMC) para el caso de una economa dolarizada como la ecuatoriana.Este enfoque se basa…

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…