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Does access to free health insurance crowd-out private transfers?: evidence from Mexico’s Seguro Popular
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-09-24)
This study examines whether Seguro Popular, a free-of-charge publicly provided health insurance program for otherwise uninsured households, crowdedout private transfers in Mexico. Using data from the National Household ...
Climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: policy options and research priorities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
Although climate change is filled with uncertainties, a broad set of policies proposed to address this issue can be grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope ...
On intergenerational (im)mobility in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-10-28)
This paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opportunities ...
Inflation targeting and term premia estimates for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-04-11)
Inflation targeting has been widely adopted in Latin America. In this paper, we show evidence consistent with major beneficial effects from so doing, with falling term premia and anchored policy rate expectations. To do ...
Implicit redistribution within Argentina’s social security system: a micro-simulation exercise
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-03-22)
The intra-generational redistribution in the Argentinean pension program is assessed in a lifetime basis. Using household surveys, the lifetime flows of labor income, contributions and retirement benefits are simulated. ...
Introduction to research at the policy frontier in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-10)
The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges for public health policies
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases ...
Intergenerational transmission of education: the relative importance of transmission channels
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-01-20)
This paper aims at quantifying the relative importance of different transmission channels generating the high levels of intergenerational correlations in education, especially in Latin America. A simultaneous equations ...
Progress and challenges in achieving an evidence-based education policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
This paper reviews the progress economists have made towards achieving an evidence-based educational policy, and highlights challenges that remain. The five main findings are: (1) over the past two decades, much effort has ...
Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world. Its urbanization rate of almost 80 % is comparable to that of high-income countries. However, cities in the region are struggling to ...