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Size-dependent gender gaps in entrepreneurship: the case of Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-02-28)
This paper documents differences in firm size depending on whether their manager is a man or a woman and studies the aggregate implications of these gender gaps in Chile. We document that in 2007 less than a quarter of ...
Sanctions and oil production: evidence from Venezuela’s Orinoco Basin
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-09-22)
We use the differential access to credit of oil firms in Venezuela’s Orinoco Basin to identify the economic effects of financial and oil sanctions on firm output. Using a panel of monthly firm-level oil production from ...
Socioeconomic effects of COVID-19 in Mexico: a multisectoral approach and policy options
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-01-10)
The health crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 has caused a profound social and economic disruption in Mexico. Our purpose in this paper is to contribute to the knowledge about the economic impact of the pandemic in ...
The dynamic linkages between exporting and importing in Colombian manufacturing
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
This paper analyses the dynamic linkages between firms’ imports of intermediate inputs and exports, for Colombia, an emerging economy. We use data for manufacturing firms from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey, for ...
Technical efficiency, production risk, and sharecropping: the case of rice farming in Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
Contractual relationships regarding land tenure in agriculture are diverse. From formal systems such as landowner and fixed rent, sharecropping emerges as an alternative in which the owner of the land shares the benefits ...
Socioeconomic status and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of 8 large Latin American cities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-23)
This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for 8 large Latin American cities. Indicators of mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining geo-referenced mobile phone information ...
Automation and the jobs of young workers
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-02-14)
New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market ...
Coffee in crisis offers a lesson in resilience: evidence from Guatemala
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
The idea that resilience plays a role in mitigating the effects of disaster and climate change is becoming widespread across the development community. Consequently, the concept of resilience has been translated into ...
Heterogeneous returns of informality: evidence from Brazil
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
This paper estimates the marginal treatment effect of formality on wages for Brazil at the individual level leveraging regional data on labor inspections for identification. The results show that there is significant ...
Financial exclusion and financial literacy: evidence from Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
This study seeks to contribute to the understanding of the underlying factors that can explain the high levels of financial exclusion that persist in Mexico, with focus on the role of financial literacy. Our analysis is ...