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 May 24, 2022

• Inequality hysteresis and the effectiveness of macroeconomic stabilisation policies
• LinkedIn en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿Una transformación acelerada del mercado laboral por la pandemia?
• Accelerating Digital Payments in Latin America and the Caribbean
• The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil
• Denialism, Politics and the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil: an empirical analysis on observational data

New entries as of May 17, 2022

• Books and Guns: The Quality of Schools in Conflict Zones
• Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
• Prevalence of care dependence among older persons in 26 Latin American and the Caribbean countries
• Go green or go home? Energy transition, directed technical change and wage inequality
• How to repay the after-COVID-19 public debt?: The case of Colombia

New entries as of May 10, 2022

• An Analysis of COVID-19 Student Learning Loss
• Impulsando la transformación digital del transporte en América Latina y el Caribe
• Desigualdad en el aprendizaje durante el COVID-19: evidencia para estudiantes de secundaria en Colombia
• ¿Cómo reconstruir la educación postpandemia? Soluciones para cumplir con la promesa de un mejor futuro para la juventud
• Overcoming Barriers to Venezuelan Women’s Inclusion and Participation in Colombia
• Enfrentando los costos fiscales del envejecimiento poblacional en América Latina y el Caribe con lecciones de los países desarrollados

New entries as of May 3, 2022

• Can We Grow with our Children? The Effects of a Comprehensive Early Childhood Development Program
• Bringing back the state: understanding varieties of pension re-reforms in Latin America
• Cash transfers before pregnancy and infant health
• Nueva normalidad y formación profesional. Aportes desde la experiencia de cuatro instituciones de formación
• Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-primary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic

New entries as of April 26, 2022

• How Accurate is the Kakwani Index in Predicting Whether a Tax or a Transfer is Equalizing? An Empirical Analysis
• Economic hardship, institutions and subjective well-being in Latin America
• Impact of Regulatory Changes on Economic Feasibility of Distributed Generation Solar Units
• Trust and Public Support for the Colombian Peace Agreement
• A gender story of social disengagement of young adults in Latin America

New entries as of April 19, 2022

• The Magnitude and Predictors of Overeducation and Overskilling in Latin America: Evidence from PIAAC
• Challenges of Public Credit Guarantee Schemes in Latin America during the Pandemic
• Impacto del COVID-19 sobre la demanda y oferta de vivienda nueva No VIS en Colombia
• El pilar no contributivo y su rol en el sistema de protección a la vejez: Colombia mayor social
• Trade Networks in Latin America: Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions
• Redistribution Policy and Social Welfare: A View from Macroeconomics

New entries as of April 12, 2022

• Why has economic shrinking receded in Latin America? A social capability approach
• COVID-19 in Uruguay: A survey of policy responses and their impact
• Impacto de un programa de pensiones no contributivas en la oferta laboral del hogar. El caso de Previência Rural en Brasil
• Dynamic effects of smoking bans on addictive behavior among young adults
• Using Satellite Images to Measure Crop Productivity: Long-Term Impact Assessment of a Randomized Technology Adoption Program in the Dominican Republic

New entries as of April 5, 2022

• Remesas, Pobreza y Distribución del Ingreso en Venezuela: ¿Qué dice la evidencia?
• Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major
• Reinvirtiendo en la Educación en las Américas
• Public Debt Reporting in Developing Countries
• El impacto de la crisis del COVID-19 en estudiantes vulnerables de educación superior. El caso de Perú

New entries as of March 29, 2022

• Brechas salariales entre varones y mujeres en el Uruguay
• Affirmative action with no major switching: Evidence from a top university in Brazil
• Do Inclusive Education Policies Improve Employment Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment
• Do immigrants take or create natives' jobs? Evidence of Venezuelan immigration in Peru
• O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries

New entries as of March 22, 2022

• What a difference a full day makes: Evidence from new schools in Fortaleza
• Towards a quality currency
• Are Fairness Perceptions Shaped by Income Inequality? Evidence from Latin America
• Maternal Displacements during Pregnancy and the Health of Newborns
• Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets

New entries as of March 15, 2022

• Youth labour market resilience during the COVID-19 crisis in three middle-income countries
• The Effects of AI on the Working Lives of Women
• School starting age and nutritional outcomes: Evidence from Brazil
• Local Retail Prices, Product Varieties and Neighborhood Change
• Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice

New entries as of March 8, 2022

• El papel de las ciencias del comportamiento en la reducción de la brecha de género
• The dollar debt of companies in Latin America: the warning signs
• The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina
• The COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The Labor Supply Impact by Gender
• The Paradox of Redistribution in Time. Social Spending in 53 Countries, 1967-2018

New entries as of March 1, 2022

• Life Out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesties in the Lives of Migrants
• The effect of Crianza Positiva e-messaging program on adult-child language interactions
• Gimme Shelter. Social Distancing and Income Support in Times of Pandemic
• Socially Optimal Crime and Punishment
• Do Slum Upgrading Programs Impact School Attendance?

New entries as of February 22, 2022

• Women in Paid Employment: A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala
• Resilience to shrinking as a catch-up strategy: a comparison of Brazil and Indonesia, 1964–2010
• Tendencias en Publicaciones en Revistas Chilenas de Economía
• Estados ágiles en América Latina: la transformación digital de los reguladores económicos
• Can Economics Become More Reflexive? Exploring the Potential of Mixed-Methods

New entries as of February 15, 2022

• Respuesta de protección social al COVID-19 en el ámbito rural de América Latina y el Caribe: Doble inclusión social y económica
• Behind the Scenes of Central Bank Digital Currency
• Protección social y respuesta al COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe: Innovaciones en los sistemas de registro y pago
• Tax Policy for Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Gendered Taxes: The Interaction of Tax Policy with Gender Equality

New entries as of February 8, 2022

• Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states: the origins and expansion of income tax
• Informal Labor Markets in Times of Pandemic: Evidence for Latin America and Policy Options
• Nudging Parents to Increase Preschool Attendance in Uruguay
• Domestic migration and family formation and dissolution trajectories in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1950-2000
• Unbundling the Relationship between Economic Shocks and Crime
• Beyond the Fetish of Economic Growth: Measuring Sustainable Economic Welfare in Chile

New entries as of February 1, 2022

• No taxation without informational foundation: On the role of legibility in tax state development
• Estimating the Social Welfare Function of Amartya Sen for Latin America
• Helping Struggling Students and Benefiting All: Peer Effects in Primary Education
• When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country
• Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: Evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile

New entries as of January 25, 2022

• Graphing and measuring Covid’s first wave impact on the Bolivian economy
• Fintech Entry, Firm Financial Inclusion, and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Emerging Economies
• Women in Economics: Europe and the World
• Exporting and Environmental Performance: Where You Export Matters
• Remote Learning during COVID-19: Lessons from Today, Principles for Tomorrow

New entries as of January 18, 2021

• A Mountain of Debt: Navigating the Legacy of the Pandemic
• Estimating the Potential COVID-19 Impacts on Learning Poverty in Brazil
• The Aftermath of Debt Surges
• Political Prioritization of Early Childhood Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic : A Comparative Policy Analysis of Low- and Middle-Income Countries
• What Has Been the Impact of COVID-19 on Debt? Turning a Wave into a Tsunami

New entries as of January 11, 2022

• Informalidad en los tiempos del COVID-19 en América Latina: implicaciones y opciones de amortiguamiento
• Reactivando para un mejor país después de la pandemia de COVID-19: una propuesta de diagnóstico de acción para el Perú
• Estimaciones de las tendencias comerciales: América Latina y el Caribe
• Los impactos socioeconómicos del Covid-19 en América Latina y los desafíos de la recuperación
• Ampliando las opciones en el mercado laboral: el presente y el futuro de la educación vocacional y técnica en Colombia

Top entries for 2021

• El aporte de la biotecnología médica frente a la pandemia de COVID-19 y lecciones para su desarrollo mediante las estrategias nacionales de bioeconomía: estudios de caso de Colombia, Costa Rica y el Uruguay
• Poverty in Latin America
• Inequality and Social Policy in Latin America
• Motherhood and flexible jobs. Evidence from Latin American countries
• El Rol de la Inversión Pública: El Caso de Bolivia