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 December 11, 2018

• Ciclo de precios y regímenes fiscales vinculados con los recursos naturales no renovables en América Latina y el Caribe
• Social Security Reform, Retirement and Occupational Behavior
• Rural Development Policies and Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil: An Impact Evaluation of the IFAD-Supported Gavião Project and Potential Synergies with Bolsa Família
• The Agricultural R&D Investment Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean
• How Much of Barrier to Entry is Occupational Licensing?
• Economic and Social Impacts of Deforestation reduction in Brazil

New entries as of December 5, 2018

• ¿Hasta dónde pueden llevarte tus habilidades?: Cómo utilizar los datos masivos para entender los cambios en el mercado laboral
• Internationalization paths of fruit export companies from emerging economies: Are they regionally or globally oriented?
• The Geography of Repression and Support for Democracy: Evidence from the Pinochet Dictatorship
• Effects of the bolsa família program on the economic wellbeing of rural families in brazilian macrorregions: a computable general equilibrium analysis
• The Returns to College Choice: Loans, Scholarships and Labor Outcomes

New entries as of November 29, 2018

• How does information disclosure affect liquidity? Evidence from an Emerging Market
• Análisis de la Desigualdad de Largo Plazo en Bolivia 1976-2012
• Millennials en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿trabajar o estudiar?
• Household Debt and Recession in Brazil
• Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
• Are foreigners the vectors of Contagion? A study of six emerging markets

New entries as of November 20, 2018

• Happiness at Different Ages: The Social Context Matters
• Working time and the future of work
• The New Lifecycle of Women’s Employment: Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops
• ¿Cómo nos reconciliamos? El papel de la violencia, la participación social y política, y el Estado en las actitudes frente a la reconciliación
• Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil

New entries as of November 13, 2018

• Public Savings and the Effectiveness of Sterilized Foreign Exchange Intervention
• Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies : Evolution, Drivers and Policies
• Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Lessons Learned
• Ciclo y composición del cambio en los salarios: una aproximación a la estructura salarial de Colombia
• Distribution and productivity growth: an empirical exercise applied to selected Latin American countries

New entries as of November 6, 2018

• The Role of Climate Risk on Land Allocation in Brazilian Amazon
• Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments
• Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
• El marketing social una respuesta del mundo mercantil al desarrollo sostenible

New entries as of October 30, 2018

• Fiscal Redistribution, Sustainability, and Demography in Latin America
• Exits from the Poverty Trap and Growth Accelerations in a Dual Economy Model
• The Rich Underreport their Income: Assessing Bias in Inequality Estimates and Correction Methods using Linked Survey and Tax Data
• The cultural origin of saving behavior
• Why Do People Work So Hard?

New entries as of October 23, 2018

• Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
• No Impact of Rural Development Policies? No Synergies with Conditional Cash Transfers? An Investigation of the IFAD-Supported Gavião Project in Brazil
• How Equitable is Access to Opportunities and Basic Services Considering the Impact of the Level of Service? The Case of Santiago, Chile
• Social Cohesion and Labor Mobility
• Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention
• New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and Developing Economies

New entries as of October 16, 2018

• How Far Can Your Skills Take You
• Conditional cash transfers, spillovers and informal health care: Evidence from Peru
• Determinants of Household Position within Chilean Wealth Household’s Distribution
• Pathways to Formalization: Going beyond the Formality Dichotomy
• Multi-dimensional poverty among adults in Central America and gender differences in the three I’s of poverty: Applying inequality sensitive poverty measures with ordinal variables
• Education policy and intergenerational transfers in equilibrium
• How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? What does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?

New entries as of October 9, 2018

• Moneda de facturación de las empresas uruguayas
• No sympathy for the devil! Policy priorities to overcome the middle-income trap in Latin America
• Minimum wage: global challenges and perspectives
• Las expectativas educativas de los estudiantes de secundaria de regiones amazónicas: un análisis de los factores asociados desde el enfoque de eficacia escolar
• Foreign Currency Invoicing of Domestic Transactions as a Hedging Strategy: Theory and Evidence for Uruguay

New entries as of October 2, 2018

• Health at Birth, short-run health effects and educational outcomes
• Efficient Labor Supply for Latin Families: Is the Intra-Household Bargaining Power Relevant?
• Política industrial en el ciclo de los commodities en Uruguay
• Income Distribution in Latin America. The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
• Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo: el impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral del 2001
• Economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: a graphic view

New entries as of September 25, 2018

• Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
• Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap
• Is Envy Harmful to a Society’s Psychological Health and Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Study of 18,000 Adults
• Employer power, labor saving technical change, and inequality
• Testing

New entries as of September 18, 2018

• Inequality, Social Distance, and Giving
• XX>XY?: The changing female advantage in life expectancy
• Labor Cost of Mental Health: Evidence from Chile
• More educated, less mobile? Diverging trends in income and educational mobility in Chile and Peru
• Increasing productivity dispersion: Evidence from light manufacturing in Brazil

New entries as of September 11, 2018

• Saving Rates in Latin America: A Neoclassical Perspective
• The Returns from Training in Colombia: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey
• The Effects of Being Subject to the Colombian Apprenticeship Contract on Manufacturing Firm Performance
• Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development
• A Comparison of TFP Estimates via Distribution Dynamics: Evidence from Light Manufacturing Firms in Brazil

New entries as of September 4, 2018

• How Sensitive is Regional Poverty Measurement in Latin America to the Value of the Poverty Line?
• Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America during Globalization Waves
• The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Latin America
• Locus of control and its intergenerational implications for early childhood skill formation
• Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes
• Income terms of trade and economic convergence: Evidence from Latin America

New entries as of August 28, 2018

• Employee Involvement and Job Satisfaction: A Tale of the Millennial Generation
• The Brazilian Government Severance Indemnity Fund for Employees (FGTS) and unemployment insurance savings accounts in other countries: a comparative analysis of their effects on the labour market
• The Role of the Propensity Score in Fixed Effect Models
• Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule?
• Brazilian fiscal policy in perspective: from expansion to austerity

New entries as of August 21, 2018

• The distributive impact of income taxes in Brazil
• Pobreza monetaria y pobreza multidimensional. Análisis 2010-2017
• Frustration, euphoria, and violent crime
• Integration of administrative records for social protection policies: contributions from the Brazilian experience
• ¿Cerrando brechas?: las estrategias nacionales de inclusión financiera en América Latina y el Caribe
• Tax on Large Fortunes: the recent international debate and the situation in Brazil

New entries as of August 14, 2018

• Is Automation Labor-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share
• Internal forced displacement and crime: Evidence from Colombia
• Towards design sociology
• Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending
• México: Políticas para el crecimiento inclusivo y desarrollo de la economía nacional

New entries as of August 7, 2018

• Extraction of inflation expectations from financial instruments in Latin America
• Welfare Effects Of Switching Barriers Through Permanence Clauses: Evidence From The Mobiles Market In Colombia
• Human Capital, Labor Market Outcomes and Horizontal Inequality in Guatemala
• On the Distribution Dynamics of Human Development: Evidence from the Metropolitan Regions of Bolivia
• Politics-Driven Exchange Rate Cycles: East Asia vs. Latin America

New entries as of July 31, 2018

• Inferring Inequality with Home Production
• Women Wavemakers: Practical Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Coding Bootcamps
• Price wars in a highly concentrated industry: Mobile communication voice services
• Fair Progress? : Economic Mobility Across Generations Around the World
• Effects of Food Prices on Poverty: The Case of Paraguay, a Food Exporter and a Non-Fully Urbanized Country
• Predicting Individual Wellbeing Through Test Scores: Evidence from a National Assessment in Mexico

New entries as of July 24, 2018

• Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and Some Policy Examples
• Inequality Measurement and the Rich: Why inequality increased more than we thought
• De-Democratisation and Rising Inequality: The Underlying Cause of a Worrying Trend
• Social Preferences and Social Curiosity
• Wages and employment: The role of occupational skills

New entries as of July 17, 2018

• Gender and financial inclusion in Colombia
• Servicios sociales para ciudadanos digitales: Oportunidades para América Latina y el Caribe
• The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Wages
• The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility
• Measuring the Job Stress of the Employed Population. The Case of Labor Market in Cali-Colombia

New entries as of July 10, 2018

• Blockchain: Cómo desarrollar confianza en entornos complejos para generar valor de impacto social
• Identification in Macroeconomics
• How to make a pie: Reproducible Research for Empirical Economics and Econometrics
• No intrinsic gender differences in children’s earliest numerical abilities
• Financiar educación de calidad y equitativa en América Latina
• Creciendo con Productividad: Una agenda para la Region Andina

New entries as of July 3, 2018

• Reforma Monetaria y Metas de Inflación
• ¿Qué impacto tienen las unidades de cumplimiento?: Evaluando innovaciones en los gobiernos
• Text as Data
• Commodity Prices Shocks and the Balance Sheet Effect in Latin America
• Las brechas de género en ciencia, tecnología e innovación en América Latina y el Caribe: resultados de una recolección piloto y propuesta metodológica para la medición

New entries as of June 26, 2018

• Desregulación cambiaria, fuga de capitales y deuda: la experiencia Argentina reciente
• How We Can Save (for) Our Future
• Rendición de cuentas y destino de la deuda pública del Gobierno de la Ciudad de México
• ¿A quién le importa saber?: La economía política de la capacidad estadística en América Latina
• Acumulación de capital y crecimiento estatal en México: un análisis con datos panel
• Women across Subfields in Economics: Relative Performance and Beliefs
• Minería a gran escala y conflictos sociales: un análisis para el sur de Ecuador

New entries as of June 19, 2018

• Police and Crime: Further Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
• Ciclos económicos y vulnerabilidad externa en América Latina
• A Broken Social Elevator? How to Promote Social Mobility
• La priorización en salud paso a paso: cómo articulan sus procesos México, Brasil y Colombia
• Indigenous Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: The First Decade
• Trade Liberalization and Informality in Argentina: Exploring the Adjustment Mechanisms

New entries as of June 12, 2018

• Technical Education, Noncognitive Skills and Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Brazil
• Desigualdades en México 2018
• Gasto Público, Evaluaciones de Impacto y Productividad Agrícola. Resumen de Evidencias de América Latina y el Caribe
• Pobreza y Desigualdad. Informe Latinoamericano 2017. No dejar a ningún territorio atrás
• Subamos el estándar: Para Ciudades Productivas en América Latina y el Caribe

New entries as of June 5, 2018

• Cómo los países latinoamericanos pasaron a ser campeones del mundo en felicidad
• Zonas Económicas Especiales y su impacto sobre el desarrollo económico regional
• Acceso y uso de nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación de acuerdo a grupos de edad – El caso de Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Paraguay y Perú
• Rindiendo cuentas: La agenda del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en transparencia y anticorrupción (2009-2015)
• Gestión de Pemex como Empresa Productiva del Estado
• Migration and Development Brief: Migration and Remittances

New entries as of May 29, 2018

• The concentration of income at the top in Brazil, 2006-2014
• A time-varying fiscal reaction function for Brazil
• Income inequality, growth and elite taxation in Brazil: new evidence combining survey and fiscal data, 2001–2015
• Inter-temporal sustainability of fiscal redistribution: A methodological framework
• A history of inequality: top incomes in Brazil, 1926–2015
• Firm-to-firm Connections in Colombian Imports

New entries as of May 22, 2018

• Análisis Comparativo de Precios de Medicamentos en América Latina
• Capital (and Earnings) Incentives for Loan Loss Provisions in Brazil: evidence from a crisis-buffering regulatory intervention
• Las Encuestas de Ocupación y Desocupación del Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile
• When do populations polarize? An explanation
• Capital humano para la transformación digital en América Latina

New entries as of May 15, 2018

• Fading Out Effect or Long Lasting Nudge? The impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Beyond Starting the School Year in Argentina
• The impact of mining patents on public education: evidence for mining municipalities in Chile
• Blessing a Curse? Institutional Reform and Resource Booms in Colombia
• The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on the Situation of Women in the Household: The Case of a Pension Reform in Argentina
• A Community Based Program Promotes Sanitation
• Ecosystems´ climate compensatory function for intelligent land use: water, sanitation and health in the developing world

New entries as of May 8, 2018

• Socio-Economic Determinants of Hunger in Latin American Countries
• Interventions Using Regular Activities to Engage High-Risk School-Age Youth: a Review of After-School Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil
• Measuring the Redistributive Effect of Pensions
• Testing Happiness Hypothesis among the Elderly
• Investment Gaps in IDB Borrowing Countries

New entries as of May 1, 2018

• Creatividad, eficiencia y concentración espacial en México
• Derrama de las exportaciones industriales en países de Latinoamérica
• Impacto del franquiciamiento en el desarrollo
• Obesidad y salud pública en México: transformación del patrón hegemónico de oferta-demanda de alimentos
• Aproximación crítica a las principales teorías sobre el cambio tecnológico

New entries as of April 24, 2018

• Gobiernos que sirven: Innovaciones que están mejorando la entrega de servicios a los ciudadanos
• The changing nature of work
• Educación que rinde: Mujeres, trabajo y cuidado infantil en América Latina y el Caribe: Resumen
• Advancing academic opportunities for disadvantaged youth: third year impact evaluation of a privately-managed school in a poor neighborhood in Montevideo
• The Future of Work: Regional Perspectives
• The Transmission of Commodity Price Super-Cycles

New entries as of April 18, 2018

• Frequency of testing. Lessons from a field experiment in higher education
• Segundo informe anual sobre el progreso y los desafíos regionales de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe
• The effect of one-on-one assistance on the compliance with labor regulation. A field experiment in extremely vulnerable settings
• Social and Solidarity Economy as a tool for territorial development and socio-occupational inclusion
• Effects of Motorcycle Helmet Laws on Fatalities’ Prevention: An Impact Evaluation
• Sostenibilidad ambiental de las exportaciones agroalimentarias: los casos de Chile, Colombia, el Ecuador y el Uruguay

New entries as of April 10, 2018

• Public Works Programs and Crime
• Hacia un sistema de formación continua de la fuerza laboral en el Perú
• Incidencia de la pobreza y la indigencia en 31 aglomerados urbanos
• Rethinking education: Towards a global common good?
• Access to Employment and Property Values in Mexico

New entries as of April 3, 2018

• The Industrialization of South America Revisited: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010
• Spiritual Practices and Dispositional Optimism in an Underprivileged Population
• Effects of official and unofficial central bank communication on the Brazilian interest rate curve
• Demand Shocks and Labor Market Dynamics: Firm Level Responses to a Commodity Boom
• Desigualdad en Países en Desarrollo: ¿Ajustando las Expectativas?
• La construcción de sistemas de información sobre el mercado laboral en América Latina

New entries as of March 27, 2018

• Keynes on the Sequencing of Economic Policy: Recovery and Reform in 1933
• La cadena regional de valor de la industria de lácteos en Centroamérica
• Paraguay: Is Good Macro Policy Enough to Ensure Adequate Resilience to Adverse External Shocks? How Does It Compare to Other Emerging Markets?
• Informe de evaluación de la política de desarrollo social
• Centroamérica y la República Dominicana: evolución económica en 2017 y perspectivas para 2018. Balance preliminar

New entries as of March 20, 2018

• Poverty Diagnostic for Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Guatemala
• Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events
• The Impact of a Mathematics Computer-Assisted Learning Platform on Students’ Mathematics Test Scores
• Perú frente a Colombia y Chile. Desarrollos distintos en la Alianza del Pacífico
• Employment in multinational enterprises in Mexico: Analysis of economic census
• "If it's already tough, imagine for me...". A Qualitative Perspective on Youth Out of School and Out of Work in Brazil

New entries as of March 13, 2018

• Alquiler en números: La tenencia de vivienda en América Latina y el Caribe
• El impacto de las transferencias monetarias condicionadas en las inversiones de los hogares en activos y actividades productivas: Evidencia del Programa Juntos en Perú
• La eficiencia en el uso del agua y la energía en los procesos mineros: casos de buenas prácticas en Chile y el Perú
• Determinants of Slum Formation: The Role of Local Politics and Policies
• Agriculture Productivity Growth in Brazil

New entries as of March 6, 2018

• Marriage, labor supply and the dynamics of the social safety net
• La flexibilización de las condiciones de acceso a las jubilaciones en el Uruguay
• Estimación del gasto en protección ambiental en Costa Rica
• Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil
• Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance

New entries as of February 27, 2018

• Las cadenas logísticas mineras en el Perú: oportunidades para una explotación más sostenible de los recursos naturales
• Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Grow
• Exploring new forms of cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean
• Broadband Internet, Labor Demand, and Total Factor Productivity in Colombia
• Entre la igualdad legal y la discriminación de hecho

New entries as of February 20, 2018

• Strengthening Argentina’s integration in the global economy: policy proposals for trade, investment, and competition
• Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates
• A Theory of Social Norms, Women's Time Allocation, and Gender Inequality in the Process of Development
• The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
• Crecimiento urbano y acceso a oportunidades: un desafío para América Latina
• Do CCTs Improve Employment and Earnings in the Very Long-Term? Evidence from Mexico

New entries as of February 13, 2018

• Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future
• Psychosocial wellbeing and place characteristics in Mexico
• Can Licensing Induce Productivity? Exploring the IPR Effect
• State-dependent Forward Guidance and the Problem of Inconsistent Announcements
• Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions: Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity?
• Inequality of opportunity in Mexico

New entries as of February 6, 2018

• Skill Selection and American Immigration Policy in the Interwar Period
• Does board diversity affect institutional investor preferences? Evidence from Latin America
• Does upward mobility harm trust?
• Positional goods and legal orderings
• Voces emergentes: Percepciones sobre la calidad de vida urbana en América Latina y el Caribe
• Property Tax Exemption for Government-Owned Real Estate in Mexico

New entries as of January 30, 2018

• On measuring social tensions: with applications to Brazil
• The Changing Way Governments Talk about Poverty and Inequality
• Wealthier, Happier and More Self-Sufficient: When Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Economic and Subjective Wellbeing at a Reduced Cost to Taxpayers
• Welfare-Consistent Global Poverty Measures
• La educación técnica en el Ecuador: el perfil de sus usuarios y sus efectos en la inclusión laboral y productiva

New entries as of January 23, 2018

• Fecundidad no deseada entre las adolescentes latinoamericanas: un aumento que desafía la salud sexual y reproductiva y el ejercicio de derechos
• Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Colombia
• Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments
• Minimum Age Regulation and Child Labor: New Evidence from Brazil
• Behavioral Inattention

New entries as of January 16, 2018

• Using Behavioral Economics to Curb Workplace Misbehaviors: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
• Global Inequality when Unequal Countries Create Unequal People
• The impact of health on labour supply near retirement
• Coordination via Redistribution
• The Labor Market Effects of an Educational Expansion. A Theoretical Model with Applications to Brazil

New entries as of January 9, 2018

• Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by taxpayers and welfare
• Non-standard employment around the world: Understanding challenges, shaping prospects
• Estudio sobre el subsidio por enfermedad en el Uruguay
• To the Victor Belongs the Spoils? Party Membership and Public Sector Employment in Brazil
• Paraguay: Análisis del sistema fiscal y su impacto en la pobreza y la equidad