Although the unemployment rate is traditionally used to diagnose the current state of the labor market, this indicator does not reflect the existence of asymmetries, mobility costs, and rigidities which impede labor to ...

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 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 ...

In studying the economic cycle dependency of fiscal multipliers in Chile, we implement an independent component analysis for structural shock identification within a non-linear vector autoregressive setting with generalized ...

Los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Inclusión Financiera 2021 muestran que durante la pandemia de COVID-19, una proporción importante de las personas en México fueron afectadas en sus fuentes de ingreso y su vida financiera, ...

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 ...

This paper explains the historical development of agricultural insurance and reinsurance in Mexico in the second half of the 20th century. The central argument is that the Mexican government did not fully actívate the rural ...

There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change the nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping ...

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 ...

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 ...