Size-Dependent Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chile | LAER 31
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 firms are managed by women and that this gap takes its largest value for managers with
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A Price Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration under Productivity Heterogeneity
Kaniska Dam, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Economía del CIDE, y Serfes Konstantinos escribieron el artículo A Price Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration under Productivity Heterogeneity en The Journal of Industrial Economics. Abstract We analyze the interplay between product market prices and firm boundary decisions. Enterprises are heterogeneous with respect to productivity and
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A Customized Machine Learning Algorithm for Discovering the Shapes of Recovery. Was the Global Financial Crisis Different?
Gonzalo Castañeda y Luis Castro, Profesores Investigadores Titular de la División de Economía del CIDE, escribieron el artículo A Customized Machine Learning Algorithm for Discovering the Shapes of Recovery. Was the Global Financial Crisis Different? en Journal of Business Cycle Research. Abstract In this paper, we modify a conventional machine learning technique to classify
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Outliers in Semi-Parametric Estimation of Treatment Effects
Luis Fernando Castro Peñarrieta, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Economía del CIDE, junto con Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza y Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros escribieron el artículo Outliers in Semi-Parametric Estimation of Treatment Effects en la revista Econometrics. Abstract Outliers can be particularly hard to detect, creating bias and inconsistency in the semi-parametric estimates. In this paper, we use
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Unexplained Wage Gaps in the Tradable and Nontradable Sectors: Cross-Sectional Evidence by Gender in Bolivia
Luis Castro-Peñarrieta, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Economía del CIDE, y Oscar Molina-Tejerina escribieron el artículo Unexplained Wage Gaps in the Tradable and Nontradable Sectors: Cross-Sectional Evidence by Gender in Bolivia en la revista Investigación & Desarrollo. Abstract This document analyzes the gender wage gap between in tradable and non-tradable sectors. The tradable sector is
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Production risk and adoption of irrigation technology: evidence from small-scale farmers in Chile
In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation technology. In this paper, César Salazar and John Rand study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among small-scale farmers in Chile, applying sample selection and discrete choice models. We find that more educated farmers, with credit access, receiving extension
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