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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 ...
How does explicit discrimination in job ads interact with discrimination in Callbacks?: evidence from a correspondence study in Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Job ads often narrow their searches using gender or age requirements. These narrow searches
do not rule out the existence of post-application discrimination. We test for such biases using
a correspondence experiment in ...
Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay: main drivers and policy implications
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-05-05)
The aim of this research is to explore the existence of inefficient behaviors in public high schools in Uruguay and identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. ...
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 ...
Introduction to research at the policy frontier in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-10)
Inclusión financiera y el desarrollo económico de México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas, División de Economía, 2015)
There is a historical relationship between economic development and a proper access to financial services. In this paper we test the hypothesis that the positive relationship among the number of financial institutions, the ...
Does access to health insurance reduce the risk of miscarriages?: evidence from Mexico’s Seguro Popular
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-10-07)
This paper analyzes whether Mexico’s de-facto non-contributory health insurance program Seguro Popular had an effect on the risk of miscarriage during pregnancy. Using data on pregnancies over the 2004–08 period from the ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...