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The rise and fall of Argentina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-15)
I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy ...
Evidence-based gender equality policy and pay in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress and challenges
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-10-31)
This paper aims to identify the main contributing factors to the observed gender pay inequality in the last 10 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also aims to identify the main restrictions to design evidence-based ...
The impact of competition with China in the US market on innovation in Mexican manufacturing firms
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-05-29)
Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China for the US market on the innovation efforts of the Mexican manufacturing sector. After controlling for ...
Pass‑through and competition: the impact of soft drink taxes as seen through Mexican supermarkets
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-05-03)
In January 2014, Mexico addressed its epidemic of obesity by implementing an excise tax of 1 peso (1 MXN) per liter on soft drinks. This study evaluates the pass-through of the tax, the influence on the tax of competition ...
Skills versus suck: Bolivia and its recent bonanza
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-07-29)
This paper uses different approaches to determine the contribution of internal policies and external factors on the good performance of the Bolivian economy in the recent past. It is demonstrated that the extremely favorable ...
Pollution and the choice of where to work and live within Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-04)
Global air pollution continues to increase across the world, and Mexico City is one of the most polluted cities in the western hemisphere. This paper considers the tradeoff between wages, housing characteristics, and air ...
Frontiers in the economics of crime: lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-12-12)
Crime and violence generate many distortions in the allocation of private and public resources and engender economic and social costs that hinder development. In Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the most violent ...
The dynamic linkage between renewable energy, tourism, CO2 emissions, economic growth, foreign direct investment, and trade
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-02-19)
Because of the lack of econometric studies in relevance to the link between tourism and renewable energy, the goal of this study is to remedy this lack and to explore the causal relationships between renewable energy ...
Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: evidence from a supply–demand framework
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-12-11)
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational level for sixteen Latin American countries over the period 1991–2013. We find a pattern of rather constant rise in the ...
Road safety: challenges and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-18)
An estimated 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents each year worldwide and millions more are injured, with developing countries disproportionately affected. It is predicted that the number of global traffic deaths ...