On this page you can find our selection of the latest academic papers on Latin America and the Caribbean. The list presented below is organized by date of entry to our data base. To browse recent working papers by topic or year, please use the menu provided in the right column of this page.

New entries as of June 20, 2017

• Innovaciones sociales para territorios “inteligentes”: ¿ficción o realidad?
• Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Competition and Incumbency Advantage
• Migración de talentos como estrategia de desarrollo: México-Japón
• El transporte automotor de carga en América Latina: Soporte logístico de la producción y el comercio
• Empresas de software en México y sus vínculos de desarrollo local
• Frustration and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Stock Market Data
• Empresas tecnológicas y políticas públicas de desarrollo regional en Brasil

New entries as of June 13, 2017

• Structural change, fundamentals and growth: a framework and case studies
• The Long-Awaited Rise of the Middle Class in Latin America Is Finally Happening
• La Macroeconomía dinámica: un modelo numérico didáctico
• Does Foreign Trade Facilitation Improve Firms’ Export Performance? A Microeconomic Analysis of Chilean Manufacturing Plants
• Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap

New entries as of June 6, 2017

• Smallholder farming in Brazil: An overview for 2014
• Perspectivas económicas - Las Américas: Historia de dos ajustes
• “En Dios Confiamos”: Politics, Populism, and Protestantism in Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua
• Crecimiento económico y convergencia en América Latina, 1950-2010
• La economía del cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe: paradojas y desafíos del desarrollo sostenible

New entries as of May 30, 2017

• La demanda de energía del sector transporte y el cambio climático en Honduras: informe final
• Public Spending
• Discrimination in Latin America: an economic perspective
• Beresford’s Revenge: British equity holdings in Latin America, 1869-1929
• Gender Matters in Economic Empowerment Interventions: A Research Review

New entries as of May 23, 2017

• Stylized Facts about the Quantity and Quality of Parental Time Investments on the Skill Formation of Their Children
• Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
• Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
• The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil
• Household Education Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Income and Expenditure Surveys

New entries as of May 16, 2017

• Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
• Using your ties to get a worse job? The differential effects of social networks on quality of employment: Evidence from Colombia
• Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications
• Trayectorias educativas en el Perú: desde la infancia hasta la adultez temprana
• Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil

New entries as of May 9, 2017

• Glass Ceiling in Research. Evidence from a National Program in Uruguay
• Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
• Subsidized Home-ownership Programs, Transaction Costs, and Domestic Violence
• Differences between self-employed and employed mothers in balancing family and work responsibilities: Evidence from Latin American countries
• The Impact of the Tax System and Social Expenditure on the Distribution of Income and Poverty in Latin America
• The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status

New entries as of May 2, 2017

• The evolution of inequality in Latin America in the 21st century: What are the patterns, drivers and causes?
• How Much Does Talent Matter? Evidence from the Brazilian Formal Cultural Industry
• Spillovers from U.S. Monetary Policy Normalization on Brazil and Mexico’s Sovereign Bond Yields
• On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship: Evidence from the Dominican Republic
• Do payroll tax breaks stimulate formality? Evidence from Colombia’s reform

New entries as of April 25, 2017

• Panama beyond the Canal: Using technological proximities to identify opportunities for productive diversification
• Así funcionan las transferencias condicionadas
• The Impact of Prison Labor Programs on Recidivism: The Case of Chile
• Revisiting personal income tax in Latin America. Evolution and impact
• Shifting Gears: A growth diagnostic of Panama

New entries as of April 18, 2017

• Factores asociados a la pobreza subjetiva en Colombia: Un estudio desde el enfoque de las capacidades y la economía de la felicidad
• Desempleo en América Latina: ¿flexibilidad laboral o acumulación de capital?
• Recesiones de México en los albores del siglo XXI
• El agro en Uruguay: renta del suelo, ingreso laboral y ganancias
• Renta extractiva y la minería del cobre en el Perú
• Financiarización y sector carretero en México
• Hacia una economía política de la competencia. La empresa transnacional
• Exploring the high-resolution mapping of gender-disaggregated development indicators

New entries as of April 11, 2017

• Self-employment and educational childcare time: Evidence from Latin America
• Women at Work in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Distributive Implications of Fertility Changes in Latin America
• The Relative Effectiveness of Spot and Derivatives Based Intervention: The Case of Brazil
• The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile. Scope and limits
• Perceptions of Distributive Justice in Latin America During a Period of Falling Inequality

New entries as of April 4, 2017

• Measuring firm size distribution with semi-nonparametric densities
• Women's Police Stations and Intimate Partner Violence
• Safeguarding Against a Reversal in Social Gains During the Economic Crisis in Brazil
• Estimating Poverty Using Cell Phone Data
• Are Tobacco Taxes Really Regressive?

New entries as of March 28, 2017

• The Political Economy of Energy Subsidy Reform
• What you say and how you say it: Information disclosure in Latin American firms
• Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development: Lessons from Six Countries in Latin America
• From Debt Collection to Relief Provision: 60 Years of Official Debt Restructurings through the Paris Club
• Mission Power and Firm Financial Performance

New entries as of March 21, 2017

• City Size, Distance and Formal Employment
• The expansion of economic protection for older adults in Latin America. Key design features of non-contributory pensions
• Institutions vs. Social Interactions in Driving Economic Convergence: Evidence from Colombia
• Sistemas de protección social en América Latina: una evaluación
• The Demand for Air Quality: A Case study in Bogotá, Colombia

New entries as of March 14, 2017

• Desigualdad de aprendizajes en Uruguay: determinantes de los resultados de PISA 2012
• The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
• Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America: Do the Characteristics of the Political System Matter?
• Taxation and inequality in developing countries - Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America
• The Trade-Off between Reforms and Checks and Balances

New entries as of March 7, 2017

• The paradox of land reform, inequality and development in Colombia
• Rising Incomes and Inequality of Access to Infrastructure among Latin American Households
• Technological innovation and employment in derived labour demand models: a hierarchical meta-regression analysis
• Rent Creation and Rent Containment
• Contestability and Changes in Tolerance towards Corruption

New entries as of February 28, 2017

• The impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Chile
• Economic Growth and Industrialization on the 2030 Agenda: Prospects for Mexico
• Territorio e igualdad: planificación del desarrollo con perspectiva de género
• Challenges in the Economic and Sociodemographic Transition of Mexico and Vietnam
• The Cement Industry in Mexico: An Analysis of its Determinants
• Brazil and China: Paths of Strengths and Turmoil

New entries as of February 21, 2017

• The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies: A Structural-Change Perspective
• National Care System in Uruguay. Who benefits and who pays?
• Occupational Choice and Matching in the Labor Market
• Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Low and Middle Income Countries
• Affordable Higher Education in Mexico

New entries as of February 14, 2017

• The structural constraints of income inequality in Latin America
• Innovation in Electronic Payment Adoption: The case of small retailers
• Aspectos institucionales de los sistemas de pensiones en América Latina
• Los costos del crimen y de la violencia: Nueva evidencia y hallazgos en América Latina y el Caribe
• Starting strong Implementation of the social SDGs in Latin America

New entries as of February 7, 2017

• New Stuff or Better Ways: What Matters to Survive International Markets?
• Affirmative Action Outcomes - Evidence from a Law School in Brazil
• Land frontier expansion in settler economies (1830- 1950): Was it a Ricardian process?
• Cómo Captar las Rentas del Cobre en Chile
• La dinámica reciente del bienestar de los niños en Uruguay. Un estudio en base a datos longitudinales

New entries as of January 31, 2017

• Ethno-racial poverty and income inequality in Brazil
• A comprehensive analysis of the wage curve in Brazil: non-linearities, urban size, and the spatial dimension
• Measuring the redistributive impact of taxes and transfers in the presence of reranking
• Opportunities Seized, Opportunities Missed: Differences in the Economic Impact of Bean Research in Five Latin American Countries
• Inflation Bias in Latin America
• A time series analysis of household income inequality in Brazil 1977-2013

New entries as of January 24, 2017

• The Role of Political Economy Analysis in Development Policy Operations
• BM and FBOVESPA Sustainability Index and the Responsible Practices of Brazilian Corporations
• Documento de enfoque: Revisión del respaldo del BID a la política y la administración tributarias, 2007-2016
• América Latina y el Caribe en PISA 2015: ¿Cuántos tienen bajo desempeño?
• How Safe Are Caribbean Homes for Women and Children?: Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence and Corporal Punishment

New entries as of January 17, 2017

• Redistribution, inequality and political participatio. Evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis
• An Analysis of the Impact of External Financial Risks on the Sovereign Risk Premium of Latin American Economies
• Los determinantes y la persistencia de la sobreeducación en el Perú
• The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in El Salvador
• Job Quality and Poverty in Latin America

New entries as of January 10, 2017

• Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in Brazil
• Nuevas Estimaciones de la Riqueza Regalada a las Grandes Empresas de la Minería Privada del Cobre: Chile 2005-2014 
• Cash transfers in Latin America. Effects on poverty and redistribution
• The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance when Informal Employment is High
• Capital Allocation across Regions, Sectors and Firms: evidence from a commodity boom in Brazil

Top entries of the 2016

• The Effects of Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations on the Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence in Uruguay
• Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America
• Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Inter-Generational Poverty Trap?
• Do Government Audits Reduce Corruption? Estimating the Impacts of Exposing Corrupt Politicians
• Output gaps and policy stabilisation in Latin America: the effect of commodity and capital flow cycles