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 April 16, 2019

• Machine Learning Methods Economists Should Know About
• Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
• Rigidities and adjustments of daily prices to costs: Evidence from supermarket data
• Actors in the Child Development Process
• A Will in Search of a Way: Philanthropy in Education in Peru

New entries as of April 9, 2019

• The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Households’ Well-Being
• Measuring the Quality of the Home Environment of Young Children in Uruguay: Socioeconomic Gradients in the Home Inventory
• Dual Labour Markets Revisited
• Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
• Motherhood and the missing women in the labor market
• The Impact of Child Work on Cognitive Development: Results from Four Low to Middle Income Countries

New entries as of April 2, 2019

• Retirement choice in a frictionless labor market
• Análisis demográfico de la Violencia en Colombia
• Gobernanza y regulación del Sistema universitario peruano: luces y sombras de una nueva reforma
• Medición de la pobreza monetaria en el Uruguay: Conceptos, metodologías, evolución y alternativas
• Intra-Household Inequality and Child Welfare in Argentina
• Populismo y democracia antiliberal: La experiencia argentina como paradigma

New entries as of March 26, 2019

• Digging Deeper - Evidence on the Effects of Macroprudential Policies from a New Database
• Improving Infrastructure Financing in Brazil
• Incorporating Inequality Aversion in Health-Care Priority Setting
• Are Management Practices Failing or Aiding the Private Sector in South America?
• Overtime work: a review of literature and initial empirical analysis

New entries as of March 19, 2019

• Social Policy in Mexico and Argentina
• To Pill or Not to Pill? Access to Emergency Contraception and Contraceptive Behaviour
• Neutral carbon tax and environmental targets in Brazil
• Labor Market Search, Informality, and On‐The‐Job Human Capital Accumulation
• The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

New entries as of March 12, 2019

• The unprotecting effects of employment protection: the impact of the 2001 labor reform in Peru
• The Return to Private Education: Evidence from School-to-Work Transitions
• What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
• Are Public Sector Workers in Developing Countries Overpaid? Evidence from a New Global Data Set
• Políticas para más y mejores empleos: El rol del Ministerio de Trabajo en Colombia

New entries as of March 5, 2019

• Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality
• The 2018 Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database
• Retos y posibilidades de la economía colaborativa en América Latina y el Caribe
• Women in Economics
• Consumer Spending During Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications

New entries as of February 26, 2019

• Wage Insurance, Part-Time Unemployment Insurance and Short-Time Work in the XXI Century
• From Immigrants to Robots: The Changing Locus of Substitutes for Workers
• Diagnóstico de las juventudes rurales de México
• How natural field experiments have enhanced our understanding of unemployment
• The ‘healthy worker effect’: do healthy people climb the occupational ladder?

New entries as of February 19, 2019

• What Is State Capacity?
• The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960–2017
• Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
• Is there a Latin American agricultural growth pattern? Factor endowments and productivity in the second half of the twentieth century
• Who Creates Stable Jobs? Evidence from Brazil

New entries as of February 12, 2019

• Desarrollo de las vías de comunicación en Colombia: el problema de la construcción de carreteras de 1945 a 1970
• Public infrastructure and its importance for economic growth: the case of Oaxaca (Mexico)
• Colombia y la deuda externa: revisión de las medidas de cumplimiento en el contexto de la crisis de los 80´s
• Bright Investments: Measuring the Impact of Transport Infrastructure Using Luminosity Data in Haiti
• The fiscal theory of the price level in overlapping generations models

New entries as of February 5, 2019

• Violence during Early Childhood and Child Development
• Las dimensiones del bienestar infantil y la focalización de los programas dirigidos a la primera infancia
• Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women’s Employment in Lima
• The deterrence effect of linear versus convex penalties in environmental policy: laboratory evidence
• A Rapid Road to Employment? The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima

New entries as of January 29, 2019

• Shaping Personality and Beliefs: The Role of Military Conscription
• The Monetary and Fiscal History of Brazil, 1960-2016
• El futuro del trabajo en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿Una gran oportunidad para la región?
• Dynamic Treatment Effects of Job Training
• Using RCTs to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics

New entries as of January 22, 2019

• Multi-dimensional Review of Peru: In-depth Analysis and Recommendations. Towards higher economic diversification and productivity in Peru
• Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
• The Effect of Initial Inequality on Meritocracy: a Voting Experiment on Tax Redistribution
• The Perversion of Land Reform by Landed Elites: Power, Inequality and Development in Colombia
• Property Rights and Intellectual Property Protection, GDP growth and Individual Well-Being in Latin America

New entries as of January 15, 2019

• Women at work: addressing the gaps
• Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research
• Social protection: meeting children’s rights and needs
• Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico
• Comprehensive Private School Model for Low-Income Urban Children in Mexico

New entries as of January 8, 2019

• Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
• Comparing global inequality of income and wealth
• Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
• The agriculture TFP growth and labor allocation in the Brazilian economy
• Non-Linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output

New entries as of January 1, 2019

• The economics of artificial intelligence: Implications for the future of work
• Effects of Interest Rate Caps on Financial Inclusion
• Motivating bureaucrats with non-monetary incentives when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Peru
• Territorial inequality, equalization transfers and asymmetric sharing of non-renewable natural resources in Latin America
• ¿Quiénes son los docentes en Colombia? Características generales y brechas regionales

Most viewed researches of 2018

• Effects of Motorcycle Helmet Laws on Fatalities’ Prevention: An Impact Evaluation
• Subamos el estándar: Para Ciudades Productivas en América Latina y el Caribe
• The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Latin America
• Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments
• Using Behavioral Economics to Curb Workplace Misbehaviors: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment