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Agilizando el Estado en América Latina: la Comisión Nacional de Mejora Regulatoria de México y sus estrategias de simplificación de trámites y mejora de las regulaciones
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-08-26)En el año 2000 México creaba la Comisión Federal de Mejora Regulatoria (actual Comisión Nacional de Mejora Regulatoria, CONAMER) como instancia de supervisión y mejora regulatoria en todo el sector público federal. ... -
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 ... -
Clean Energy Innovation in Latin America
(Interamerican Dialogue; CAF; Washington D.C., 2016-03-01)Clean energy research and commercialization have taken off over the last decade. The annual number of clean technology patent documents more than tripled between 2000 and 2014,while venture capital (VC) investment in the ... -
Distorsions, resource al location and productivity in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)We develop a span-of-control model where managerial skills are endogenous and the outcome of investments over the life cycle of managers. We calibrate such model to U.S. data, and use it to evaluate the interplay between ... -
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 ... -
The Effect of Schooling on Skills and Knowledge in Latin America. Evidence from PISA
(CAF, 2015-09-30)In this paper we estimate the causal effect of an extra year of schooling on mathematics skills and knowledge for the eight Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) ... -
From maize to haze: agricultural shocks and growth of the mexican drug sector
(CAF; Caracas, 2013)We examine how commodity price shocks experienced by rural producers affect the drug trade in Mexico. Our analysis exploits exogenous movements in the Mexican maize price stemming from weather conditions in U.S. maize-growing ... -
Govtech and the future of government: the case of Visor Urbano in Mexico
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-03-06)How should government adopt and implement digital innovation to support a deep, cost-effective digital transformation that impacts the quality of goods and services delivered to the population? To answer that question is ... -
Govtech y el futuro del gobierno: el caso de Visor Urbano en México
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-10-17)Este estudio parte de la pregunta siguiente: ¿Cómo hacer que la innovación digital sea adoptada por los gobiernos, para apoyar una transformación digital de fondo, costo-efectiva, y con impacto en la calidad de bienes y ... -
GovTech y el futuro del gobierno: las promesas de GovTech para Iberoamérica
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-03-11)Las GovTech presentan importantes ventajas para la transformación digital del sector público en Iberoamérica. Además permiten desarrollar un nuevo sector económico altamente especializado y de valor agregado. Como región, ... -
Illegal Migration and Weather Shocks: Evidence from Rural Mexico
(2022-12-28)We study the effect of weather shocks on legal and illegal migration from rural Mexico to the US. First, we find that shocks in the wet season on precipitation and temperature increase migration. The increment is entirely ... -
Innovación en energía limpia en América Latina
(Diálogo Interamericano; CAF; Washington D.C., 2016-03-01)La investigación y comercialización de energías limpias se ha incrementado rápidamente durante la última década. La cantidad anual de patentes en tecnología limpia se ha más que triplicado entre el 2000 y el 2014, mientras ... -
Mexico: the story and lessons behind Latin America’s first AI strategy
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-06-04)Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive technologies of our time and that is influencing increasingly more aspects of our social, economic, and private lives. Given its invisible influence on human actions ... -
Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-03-05)We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, ... -
On the emergence and significance of local economic development strategies
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)This paper examines to what extent local and regional economic development strategies (LED) are becoming a necessary and viable complement to traditional development strategies in a world that has been radically changed ... -
Political constraints and state capacity: Evidence from a land allocation program in Mexico
(CAF, 2015-07-20)In this paper we contribute to the understanding of the politics of state building. We emphasize that incumbent clientelistic parties might have incentives to sustain state fragility when politically challenged. We develop ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: a synthesis of results
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in ... -
Wealth in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-05-16)This paper presents harmonized indicators for household wealth, its components, and its determinants (including intergenerational mobility) in four Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay), using Spain ...
