The socioeconomics of COVID and lockdowns outside advanced economies: the case of Bogota
Using Bogota’s system of socioeconomic division, the “strata”, we show that falling ill with a serious case of COVID has been over eight...
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Market Concentration, Market Fragmentation, and Inequality in Latin America
Inequality in Latin America is much higher than in Europe and the US. The income distribution in the region is also much more skewed,...
EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working...
The Costs of Bureaucracy and Corruption at Customs: Evidence from the Computerization of Imports in Colombia
Customs face a difficult tradeoff between, on one side, collecting tariff revenues and preventing smuggling, and on the other side,...
Protección económica en la vejez de las mujeres en Colombia
En este documento estudiamos la magnitud, las causas y consecuencias de las desigualdades de género que existen en el sistema previsional...
Thermal stress and financial distress: Extreme temperatures and firms’ loan defaults in Mexico
The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are likely to increase with climate change. Although a growing body of literature...
Weak State Trap
Development outcomes come in ‘clusters’ that seem difficult to exit. Using original data from Colombia, we present evidence...
Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little...
Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections
Across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected economically disadvantaged groups. This differential...
Assessing Multiple Inequalities and Air Pollution Abatement Policies
Addressing inequality is recognized a worldwide development objective. The literature has primarily focused on examining economic or...
Direct and Indirect Effects of Lockdown Policies on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
We estimate the possible effects on poverty and income distribution of the crisis unleashed by Covid-19 on a group of Latin America...
Inside the Black Box of Child Penalties
Recentwork, mostly based on developed countries, has highlighted the negative effects of motherhood on labor market outcomes as a persistent...