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 20, 2020

• Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Improve Treatment Adherence in Parenting Programs: An Application to SMS
• Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring
• Affirmative action with overlapping reserves
• Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data
• Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies

New entries as of February 11, 2020

• The Fight against Corruption : Taming Tigers and Swatting Flies
• Gender Gaps in Education
• The Revival of Agriculture and Inclusive Growth during the Commodity Boom in Latin America?
• Formal salaried employment generation and transition to formality in developing countries: the case of Latin America
• Brechas de Género: Una Exploración Más Allá de la Media

New entries as of February 4, 2020

• Air Quality Warnings and Temporary Driving Bans: Evidence from Air Pollution, Car Trips, and Mass-Transit Ridership in Santiago
• Myths of multipolarity: the sources of Brazilian overexpansion
• Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment in Developing Countries? A Survey and Exploration of Conflicting Evidence
• Unveiling Drivers of Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
• Technology and Big Data Are Changing Economics: Mining Text to Track Methods

New entries as of January 28, 2019

• Age with Care: Long-term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean
• How Do Early-Life Shocks Interact with Subsequent Human Capital Investments? Evidence from Administrative Data
• Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants’ Well-Being?
• Inequality in Latin America: The role of the nature of trade and partners
• Violence and Children’s Education: Evidence from Administrative Data

New entries as of January 21, 2019

• Housing program and social conditions impact: Evidences from Minha Casa Minha Vida program lotteries in Brazil
• Inflation Targets in Latin America
• Distributed photovoltaic generation in Brazil: Technological innovation, scenario methodology and regulatory frameworks
• Voting for Democracy: Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation
• The impact of wind power on the Brazilian labor market

New entries as of January 7, 2019

• Bread and Social Justice: Measurement of Social Welfare and Inequalities Using Anthropometrics
• Labor Contracts, Gift-Exchange and Reference Wages: Your Gift Need Not Be Mine!
• The D-score: a metric for interpreting the early development of infants and toddlers across global settings
• Generosity and Wealth: Experimental Evidence from Bogotá Stratification
• A Theory of Cultural Revivals
• Breaking Up: Experimental Insights into Economic (Dis)Integration
• The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning

New entries as of December 3, 2019

• Why do the poor vote for low tax rates? A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution
• You’re the One That I Want! Public Employment and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes
• New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans
• The Chilean economy since the return to democracy in 1990. On how to get an emerging economy growing, and then sink slowly into the quicksand of a “middle-income trap”
• Can Behavioral 'Nudges' Improve Compliance? The Case of Colombia Social Protection Contributions
• Energy poverty measures and the identification of the energy poor: A comparison between the utilitarian and multidimensional approaches in Chile

New entries as of October 29, 2019

• What Works for Active Labor Market Policies?
• Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality: Evidence for Latin America
• On Latin American Populism, And Its Echoes Around the World
• On the measurement of relative, absolute and intermediate pro-middle class growth
• The Drivers of Social Preferences: Evidence from a Nationwide Tipping Field Experiment

New entries as of October 22, 2019

• What Works: Promoting Pathways to Decent Work
• A Bad Year? Climate Variability and the Wine Industry in Chile
• A Note on the Relationship between Additive Separability and Decomposability in Measuring Income Inequality
• Charity as Income Redistribution: A Model with Optimal Taxation, Status, and Social Stigma
• Deciding to Delegate: On Distributional Consequences of Endogenous Delegation
• Heterogeneity in Talent or in Tastes? Implications for Redistributive Taxation

New entries as of October 15, 2019

• Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
• The Effects of Mandating Training in Firms: Theory and Evidence from the Colombian Apprenticeship Program
• Discriminación de género en las calificaciones de las escuelas públicas uruguayas
• Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation: A Municipal-Level Perspective from Mexico (1992–2014)
• Inattention, Disagreement and Internal (In)Consistency of Inflation Forecasts

New entries as of October 8, 2019

• Toward an Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence
• Dynamic Social Interactions and Health Risk Behavior
• The effects of business accelerators on venture performance: evidence from start-up Chile
• Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Lifecycle Perspective
• Explaining Hours Worked Across and Within Countries: Income Effects vs. Taxes and Transfers

New entries as of October 1, 2019

• Sectoral Transitions Between Formal Wage Jobs in Chile
• The Effect of Pretrial Detention on Labor Market Outcomes
• Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
• Estructura Productiva y Desigualdad Salarial: Evidencia para América Latina
• Redistribution through Education: The Value of Public Education Spending

New entries as of September 24, 2019

• Modern Monetary Theory: Cautionary Tales from Latin America
• The Interplay of Economic, Social and Political Fragmentation
• Preschool Quality and Child Development
• On Measuring Global Poverty
• Better Late Than Never? How Late Completion Affects the Early Careers of Dropouts
• Inequality and growth: The cholesterol hypothesis
• Fooled by the Cycle: Permanent versus Cyclical Improvements in Social Indicators
• Disincentives from Redistribution: Evidence on a Dividend of Democracy

New entries as of September 17, 2019

• Embedded supervision: how to build regulation into blockchain finance
• The impacts of social protection benefits on behaviours potentially related to economic growth: a literature review
• The Political Economy of Testing in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
• Rural poverty reduction in the 21st century
• Jobs for Growth

New entries as of September 10, 2019

• Designing Good Labour Market Institutions: How to Reconcile Flexibility, Productivity and Security?
• Neighborhoods, Social Class, and Reciprocity: Evidence Using Representative Artefactual Data from Latin America
• The green future of electricity: The case of Uruguay and The European Union
• Gender differences in giving and the anticipation-about-giving in dictator games
• Does Social Conflict in Rural Regions Decrease Firm Ownership? Evidence from the Mining Sector in Latin America

New entries as of September 3, 2019

• Cost-Effective Public Daycare in a Low-Income Economy Benefits Children and Mothers
• Preferred and Non-Preferred Creditors
• Seguridad alimentaria en América Latina y el Caribe
• Generating Gridded Agricultural Gross Domestic Product for Brazil
• Seguridad ciudadana. Lecturas fundamentales

New entries as of August 27, 2019

• Inequidad en el acceso a los servicios de salud en Uruguay
• Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment
• Systematic Determinants of Pensions in Latin America
• Evaluating the impact of the selection process of principals in Brazilian public schools
• El rol de los socios menores en la integración comercial del MERCOSUR y del TLCAN 1990-2016
• Crime and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Manaus, Brazil

New entries as of August 20, 2019

• The Best versus the Rest: Divergence across Firms during the Global Productivity Slowdown
• New Stuff or Better Ways: What Matters to Access International Markets?
• Impacts of Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Factors on Labor Markets in Latin America
• Crime-related Exposure to Violence and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Bogotá
• Equivalent income versus equivalent lifetime: does the metric matter?
• Are Millennials Really So Selfish? Preliminary Evidence from the Philanthropy Panel Study

New entries as of August 13, 2019

• Innovation, Competition, and Incentives: Evidence from Uruguayan firms
• Using Student and Teacher Assessments to Design More Pertinent In-Service Teacher Training
• Secondary School Enrolment and Teenage Childbearing: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
• Una Política Mínima de Desarrollo Productivo para Chile: Una alternativa al estancamiento
• Using Referenda to Improve Targeting and Decrease Costs of Conditional Cash Transfers

New entries as of August 6, 2019

• Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline
• Early Education and Gender Differences
• Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality
• Understanding the relationship between poverty, inequality and growth: a review of existing evidence
• Exposure to Pollution and Infant Health: Evidence from Colombia
• Minimum Age Requirements and the Role of the School Choice Set

New entries as of July 30, 2019

• ¿Funciona la gamificación en la educación?: Evidencia experimental de Chile
• Mapping stratification: The industry-occupation space reveals the network structure of inequality
• The Economic Legacy of General Velasco: Long-Term Consequences of Interventionism
• The Causes and Consequences of Early-Adult Unemployment: Evidence from Cohort Data
• The Marginal Labor Supply Disincentives of Welfare Reforms
• Is There a Business Cycle Effect on the Incidence of Dual Job Holding?

New entries as of July 23, 2019

• Are Women Status-Ranking Averse?
• Widening the High School Curriculum to Include Soft Skill Training: Impacts on Health, Behaviour, Emotional Wellbeing and Occupational Aspirations
• The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?
• Gender Gaps in Labor Informality: The Motherhood Effect
• Sibling Differences in Educational Polygenic Scores: How Do Parents React?
• Math Scores in High Stakes Grades
• Regiones para vivir. Índice sintético de calidad de vida departamental

New entries as of July 16, 2019

• A new societal contract
• Un modelo DSGE bayesiano para la heterogeneidad en shocks de impuestos como política fiscal en la reactivación económica del Perú
• Labor Market Outcomes and Early Schooling: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth
• Education Quality and Teaching Practices
• Fuel Subsidy Reform and Green Taxes: Can Digital Technologies Improve State Capacity and Effectiveness?

New entries as of July 9, 2019

• Identity and Redistribution: Theory and Evidence
• The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades
• Financing development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The role and perspectives of multilateral development banks
• Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration
• Training, Soft Skills and Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

New entries as of July 2, 2019

• Earnings inequality in the Brazilian formal sector: The role of firms, education, and top incomes 1994–2015
• Partisanship and local fiscal policy: evidence from Brazilian cities
• Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989–2014
• Happier Than Them, but More of Them Are Happy: Aggregating Subjective Well-Being
• What might explain today’s conflicting narratives on global inequality?

New entries as of June 25, 2019

• State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2019
• Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world
• Productivity Growth: Patterns and Determinants across the World
• The demand for bad policy when voters underappreciate equilibrium effects
• New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in Brazil
• Responsabilidad social en un centro público de salud en Chile

New entries as of June 18, 2019

• Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in Brazil
• How do subnational governments react to shocks to revenue sources? Evidence from Argentina
• Unemployment insurance and income protection in Ecuador
• Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
• Income redistribution in Latin America: A microsimulation approach
• Explorando los Cambios de la Pobreza en Argentina: 2003-2015

New entries as of June 11, 2019

• Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
• La financiación de las grandes ciudades: revisión de la literatura, comparación internacional y experiencias exitosas
• Renegotiations and corruption in infrastructure: The Odebrecht Case
• Tax Bunching at the Kink in the Presence of Low Capacity of Enforcement: Evidence from Uruguay

New entries as of June 4, 2019

• Economía de plataformas y empleo: ¿Cómo es trabajar para una app en Argentina?
• What students learn in economics 101: Time for a change
• Hiring Through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection
• Intergenerational Mobility: An Assessment for Latin American Countries
• Juvenile Incarceration and Adult Recidivism

New entries as of May 28, 2019

• Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence
• The Impact of Bullying Victimisation on Mental Wellbeing
• Do Economic Inequalities Affect Long-Run Cooperation & Prosperity?
• Transición demográfica, Tasas de retorno y Tasas de reemplazo de sistemas de pensiones de capitalización versus sistemas de reparto
• New Technology and Increasing Returns: The End of the Antitrust Century?
• Strategic ethics: Altruism without the other-regarding confound
• Cómo la brecha de ingreso a la escuela impacta sobre el futuro de los niños

New entries as of May 21, 2019

• Presente y futuro de las pensiones en América Latina y el Caribe
• Risk Preferences of Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills, and Executive Functions
• The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
• Why understanding multiplex social network structuring processes will help us better understand the evolution of human behavior
• Growing in the Womb: The Effect of Seismic Activity on Fetal Growth
• The Growth-Finance Nexus in Brazil: Evidence from a New Dataset, 1890-2003

New entries as of May 14, 2019

• Towards Green Growth in Emerging Market Economies: Evidence from Environmental Performance Reviews
• Impact of In-kind Social Transfer Programs on the Labor Supply: a Gender Perspective
• Flooded through the Back Door: Firm-level Effects of Bank’s Lending Shifts
• Educación técnica y formación profesional en América Latina y el Caribe: Desafíos y oportunidades
• General Equilibrium Feedback Regarding the Employment Effects of Labor Taxes

New entries as of May 7, 2019

• El futuro del trabajo en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿Cuáles son las ocupaciones y las habilidades emergentes más demandadas en la región?
• Perceptions of Inequality and Redistribution: A Note
• Personality and Positionality
• Narratives about Technology-Induced Job Degradation, Then and Now
• Distributional Effects of Competition

New entries as of April 30, 2019

• Colombia 2030: Mejorando la gestión del sector minero energético
• ¿Son los contratos temporales un peldaño hacia un contrato por tiempo indeterminado?
• Universal Basic Income in the Developing World
• Economic Impacts of the Vale-Cultura (Culture Voucher): a Computable General Equilibrium Model
• Uncertainty Under Hyperbolic Discounting: The Cost of Untying Your Hands

​New entries as of April 23, 2019

• Elementos para una política pública frente a la crisis de Venezuela
• Does informality facilitate inflation stability?
• Desde el paciente: Experiencias de la atención primaria de salud en América Latina y el Caribe
• Ensayos Sobre Desarrollo Sostenible. La Dimensión Económica de la Agenda 2030 en la Argentina
• Adecuación de tierras y el desarrollo de la agricultura colombiana: políticas e instituciones

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