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 ...

This paper studies the effectiveness of transport infrastructure in promoting development in lagging regions. Using detailed road and census data combined with a spatial general equilibrium model calibrated to Mexico, we ...

A broad literature highlights efficiency gains due to cost reduction after privatizations in the energy sector. However, to the best of our knowledge, this literature does not develop general equilibrium models, which are ...

Identifying how efficient public schools are – that is, the academic performance they can generate with the available inputs – is relevant information for designing public policies to improve education quality. Using a ...

Policy responses to COVID-19 affected the dynamic of economic growth and labor markets worldwide, hitting economically harder on developing countries. These policies involved economic lockdowns that included the shutdown ...

Behavioral biases often lead to suboptimal decisions, a vulnerability that extends to policymakers who opérate under conditions of fatigue, stress, and time constraints, with significant implications for public welfare. ...

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 ...

Using data for the Chilean mining sector, I provide SVAR evidence in order to answer the research question regarding which are the distributional consequences that commodity price shocks have in labour market outcomes for ...

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 ...

This paper seeks to examine if there is a causal link between terrorist incidents and foreign direct investment in the cases of Colombia and Peru, using large-scale and up-to-date data. The data of both parameters from the ...