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The fiscal cost of the provision of basic public services, subsidies for expenditure on food and basic citizen income per household during the COVID-19 pandemic: an expenditure analysis
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-31)
The objective of this article is to estimate the fiscal costs, using income and expenditure surveys, of the provision of basic public services (electricity, water, telephone and internet) for the 40% of the population with ...
Investigating the heterogeneity of economic convergence in Latin America Countries-an econometric análisis of systems of regression equations
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-31)
For a selected group of Latin America countries we estimated the parameters of convergence equations on the basis of anual data. We test cross-country heterogeneity of parameters within a system of Seemingly Unrelated ...
Social conflict in rural regions and firm ownership: evidence from the mining sector in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-23)
Using firm-level data for five countries in Latin America we find a negative and statistically significant link between social conflict in rural areas and ownership of mines. This result suggests that the social conflict ...
Efficiency of university education: a partial frontier analysis
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-23)
This article investigates the efficiency of the university education using two linked databases (Saber Pro and Saber 11) from the Colombian Institute for Evaluation of Education (ICFES) corresponding to 2014. We use a ...
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 ...
Hidden viólense: how COVID-19 school closures reduced the reporting of child maltreatment
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-31)
This study examines how school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the reporting of child maltreatment in Mexico City. We use a rich panel dataset on incident-level crime reports and victim characteristics and ...
Financial development and income inequality in Latin American countries: an instrumental variables estimation
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-10-29)
Latin America has made significant progress in financial development and poverty reduction in recent decades. Nevertheless, its persistent levels of inequality have further potential to be reduced, and financial development ...
Understanding the drivers of household energy spending: micro evidence for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-23)
The paper investigates the determinants of household energy spending and energy budget shares, with a focus on understanding their non-linear relationship with income, and the presence of economies of scale. The analysis ...
Social effect of Covid-19: estimates and alternatives for Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-31)
This document offers estimates of the possible changes in the social structure of the countries of Latin America derived from the consequent economic contraction from the Covid-19 pandemic and explores the possible costs ...
Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households: evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-06-18)
We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile ...