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 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