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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 ...
Property rights and intellectual property protection, GDP growth and individual well-being in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-04)
A central argument for increased protections of property rights (PR) is the role they play in encouraging economic transactions, investment and economic growth. Likewise, the utilitarian justification of intellectual ...
Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-14)
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Time goes by so slowly (for those who wait): a field experiment in health care
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-02-19)
We exploit a unique field experiment to recover the willingness to pay (WTP) for shorter waiting times at a cataract detection clinic in Mexico City, and compare the results with those obtained through a hypothetical ...
Urban transport systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons and challenges
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-14)
This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented ...
Delineating functional territories from outer space
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-05-16)
The delimitation of functional spatial units or functional territories is an important topic in regional science and economic geography, since the empirical verification of many causal relationships is affected by the size ...
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 ...
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 ...