Latest Research
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 October 17, 2017
- Varieties of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America
- Empirical Findings on Inflation Expectations in Brazil: a survey
- Wealth Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Skills: Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data
- The relationship between healthcare expenditure and income in Latin-American countries: A panel time
- Institutional shocks and economic outcomes: Allende’s election, Pinochet’s coup and the Santiago stock market
New entries as of October 10, 2017
- The population education transition curve: education gradients across population exposure to new health risks
- Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database
- The Implications of Exhaustible Resources and Sectoral Composition for Growth Accounting: An Application to Chile
- Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations?
- Cambiando la mentalidad de los estudiantes: evaluación de impacto de ¡Expande tu Mente! sobre el rendimiento académico en tres regiones del Perú
New entries as of October 3, 2017
- Inefficient Short-Time Work
- Should Robots be Taxed?
- How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior
- Ciberseguridad ¿Estamos preparados en América Latina y el Caribe?
- Access to Long-Term Care After a Wealth Shock: Evidence from the Housing Bubble and Burst
New entries as of September 26, 2017
- Estimating Transport and Insurance Costs of International Trade
- Proposing a new measure of distance in the gravity setting: evidence from Latin America
- National Culture, Families, or Education Policies: What Determines National Test Scores?
- El mundo de los servicios públicos de empleo
- On Corporate Borrowing, Credit Spreads and Economic Activity in Emerging Economies: An Empirical Investigation
New entries as of September 19, 2017
- Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum
- Rising to the youth employment challenge: New evidence on key policy issues
- Child schooling and child work in the presence of a partial education subsidy
- Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations
- Roots of Autocracy
New entries as of September 12, 2017
- Characterizing fuel choices and fuelwood use for residential heating and cooking in urban areas of central-southern Chile: the role of prices, income, and the availability of energy sources and technology
- Market and disposable top income shares adjusted by national accounts data
- Generalidades de los ADRS: Un estudio de caso sectorial para empresas de Colombia, México, Brasil y Chile
- Flujos netos de capital, choques macroeconómicos y activos de reservas. El caso argentino (1994-2013)
- The Republic of Chile Systematic Country Diagnostic: Transitioning to a Prosperous Society
New entries as of September 5, 2017
- El impacto del sistema tributario y el gasto social en la distribución del ingreso y la pobreza en América Latina. Una aplicación del marco metodológico del proyecto Compromiso con la Equidad (CEQ)
- Measuring the Cost of Salaried Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Estimating the Size of the Informal Economy in Caribbean States
- On the middle 70%. The impact of fiscal policy on the emerging middle class in Latin America using Commitment to Equity
- Innovación y calidad en educación en América Latina
- The Role of Theory in an Age of Design and Big Data
- Volatility Spillovers and Systemic Risk Across Economies: Evidence from a Global Semi-Structural Model
New entries as of August 29, 2017
- Can public policies change risk preferences? The effect of property titling on risk aversion
- A study of environmental infractions for Brazilian municipalities: a spatial dynamic panel approach
- Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Latin America's Infrastructure Market and Policy Suggestions for Korea
- Medical Brain Drain and Life Expectancy: A Comparative Analysis between Arab, American and Asian Countries
- Estimation of price and income elasticities for the Brazilian household electricity demand
- Political approval ratings and economic performance: evidence from Latin America
- People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs
New entries as of August 22, 2017
- City Size, Distance and Formal Employment Creation
- Housing Subsidies, Labor Supply and Household Welfare. Experimental Evidence from Argentina
- Valuation of Public Amenities and Differences in Quality of Life among Latin American Cities
- High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities
- Integrating Early-life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children´s Education
- Public expenditures and debt at the subnational level: Evidence of fiscal smoothing from Argentina
New entries as of August 15, 2017
- Separation, Child Support and Well-Being in Uruguay
- Impact of a work-study programme for teenagers: evidence from a randomized controlled trial
- Knowledge-Intensive Mining Services: a Regional Approach for their Development in Chile
- The Value of Redistribution: Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital under Weak Institutions
- Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
- Gendered Effects of the Personal Income Tax: Evidence from a Schedular System with Individual Filing in a Developing Country
- The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth in Uruguay
- The Role of Export Restrictions in Agricultural Trade
New entries as of August 8, 2017
- Capturing economic and social benefits at the community level. Opportunities and obstacles for civil society
- Predicting School Dropout with Administrative Data: New Evidence from Guatemala and Honduras
- R - Remesas
- ¿Es conveniente una autoridad monetaria “blanda”?
- Estudios Económicos de la OCDE: Colombia
- Understanding the Impact of Windstorms on Economic Activity from Night Lights in Central America
New entries as of August 1, 2017
- Migration and Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean: Engines of Growth and Macroeconomic Stabilizers?
- Vulnerability and Clientelism
- The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
- Trade Integration in Latin America: A Network Perspective
- Educational Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis
New entries as of July 25, 2017
- El impacto del comercio con China en los mercados laborales locales de Chile
- The Goose that laid the golden eggs? Agricultural development in Latin America in the 20th century
- Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America
- Populism and the Economics of Globalization
- Fiscal policy and the cycle in Latin America: The role of financing conditions and fiscal rules
New entries as of July 18, 2017
- Género y sistemas agroalimentarios sostenibles
- Políticas de desarrollo económico local en Chile: más allá del asistencialismo
- El valor agregado de la minería en el Perú
- An Index of Regulatory Practices for Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Enablers, Promoters and Preventers
- Compás Millennial: La generación Y en la era de la integración 4.0
- La generación eléctrica a partir de energías renovables no convencionales en Chile
New entries as of July 11, 2017
- Gaining Momentum in Peruvian Agriculture
- Big Data and the Well-Being of Women and Girls. Applications on the Social Scientific Frontier
- Lucha contra la pobreza rural en Paraguay
- Assessing the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services
- Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues
- Innovative Experiences in Access to Finance
- Defining, Conceptualising and Measuring the Digital Economy
New entries as of July 4, 2017
- Desiguales. Orígenes, cambios y desafíos de la brecha social en Chile
- Political settlements, natural resource extraction, and inclusion in Bolivia
- Validez concurrente y viabilidad de pruebas cortas comúnmente usadas para medir el desarrollo infantil temprano en estudios a gran escala: Metodología y resultados
- Towards a better future for women and work: Voices of women and men
- Credit and Saving Constraints in General Equilibrium: Evidence from Survey Data
- Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-emotional Skills in Early Childhood
New entries as of June 27, 2017
- Pobreza y violencia en la Región Caribe colombiana: un enfoque espacial
- La trampa de liquidez, historia y tendencias de investigación: un análisis bibliométrico
- Do Remittances Promote Labor Productivity Growth in Mexico? An Empirical Analysis, 1970-2014
- El Estado y el capital financiero en Argentina entre 2002 y 2012. La deuda pública
- El (incompleto y breve) regreso de la política industrial: el caso de Argentina 2003-2015
- Estado del arte del enfoque multidimensional de las políticas públicas para la reducción de la pobreza rural
New entries as of June 20, 2017
- Innovaciones sociales para territorios “inteligentes”: ¿ficción o realidad?
- Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Competition and Incumbency Advantage
- Migración de talentos como estrategia de desarrollo: México-Japón
- El transporte automotor de carga en América Latina: Soporte logístico de la producción y el comercio
- Empresas de software en México y sus vínculos de desarrollo local
- Frustration and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Stock Market Data
- Empresas tecnológicas y políticas públicas de desarrollo regional en Brasil
New entries as of June 13, 2017
- Structural change, fundamentals and growth: a framework and case studies
- The Long-Awaited Rise of the Middle Class in Latin America Is Finally Happening
- La Macroeconomía dinámica: un modelo numérico didáctico
- Does Foreign Trade Facilitation Improve Firms’ Export Performance? A Microeconomic Analysis of Chilean Manufacturing Plants
- Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap
New entries as of June 6, 2017
- Smallholder farming in Brazil: An overview for 2014
- Perspectivas económicas - Las Américas: Historia de dos ajustes
- “En Dios Confiamos”: Politics, Populism, and Protestantism in Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua
- Crecimiento económico y convergencia en América Latina, 1950-2010
- La economía del cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe: paradojas y desafíos del desarrollo sostenible
New entries as of May 30, 2017
- La demanda de energía del sector transporte y el cambio climático en Honduras: informe final
- Public Spending
- Discrimination in Latin America: an economic perspective
- Beresford’s Revenge: British equity holdings in Latin America, 1869-1929
- Gender Matters in Economic Empowerment Interventions: A Research Review
New entries as of May 23, 2017
- Stylized Facts about the Quantity and Quality of Parental Time Investments on the Skill Formation of Their Children
- Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
- Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
- The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil
- Household Education Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Income and Expenditure Surveys
New entries as of May 16, 2017
- Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
- Using your ties to get a worse job? The differential effects of social networks on quality of employment: Evidence from Colombia
- Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications
- Trayectorias educativas en el Perú: desde la infancia hasta la adultez temprana
- Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil
New entries as of May 9, 2017
- Glass Ceiling in Research. Evidence from a National Program in Uruguay
- Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
- Subsidized Home-ownership Programs, Transaction Costs, and Domestic Violence
- Differences between self-employed and employed mothers in balancing family and work responsibilities: Evidence from Latin American countries
- The Impact of the Tax System and Social Expenditure on the Distribution of Income and Poverty in Latin America
- The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status
New entries as of May 2, 2017
- The evolution of inequality in Latin America in the 21st century: What are the patterns, drivers and causes?
- How Much Does Talent Matter? Evidence from the Brazilian Formal Cultural Industry
- Spillovers from U.S. Monetary Policy Normalization on Brazil and Mexico’s Sovereign Bond Yields
- On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship: Evidence from the Dominican Republic
- Do payroll tax breaks stimulate formality? Evidence from Colombia’s reform
New entries as of April 25, 2017
- Panama beyond the Canal: Using technological proximities to identify opportunities for productive diversification
- Así funcionan las transferencias condicionadas
- The Impact of Prison Labor Programs on Recidivism: The Case of Chile
- Revisiting personal income tax in Latin America. Evolution and impact
- Shifting Gears: A growth diagnostic of Panama
New entries as of April 18, 2017
- Factores asociados a la pobreza subjetiva en Colombia: Un estudio desde el enfoque de las capacidades y la economía de la felicidad
- Desempleo en América Latina: ¿flexibilidad laboral o acumulación de capital?
- Recesiones de México en los albores del siglo XXI
- El agro en Uruguay: renta del suelo, ingreso laboral y ganancias
- Renta extractiva y la minería del cobre en el Perú
- Financiarización y sector carretero en México
- Hacia una economía política de la competencia. La empresa transnacional
- Exploring the high-resolution mapping of gender-disaggregated development indicators
New entries as of April 11, 2017
- Self-employment and educational childcare time: Evidence from Latin America
- Women at Work in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Distributive Implications of Fertility Changes in Latin America
- The Relative Effectiveness of Spot and Derivatives Based Intervention: The Case of Brazil
- The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile. Scope and limits
- Perceptions of Distributive Justice in Latin America During a Period of Falling Inequality
New entries as of April 4, 2017
- Measuring firm size distribution with semi-nonparametric densities
- Women's Police Stations and Intimate Partner Violence
- Safeguarding Against a Reversal in Social Gains During the Economic Crisis in Brazil
- Estimating Poverty Using Cell Phone Data
- Are Tobacco Taxes Really Regressive?
New entries as of March 28, 2017
- The Political Economy of Energy Subsidy Reform
- What you say and how you say it: Information disclosure in Latin American firms
- Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development: Lessons from Six Countries in Latin America
- From Debt Collection to Relief Provision: 60 Years of Official Debt Restructurings through the Paris Club
- Mission Power and Firm Financial Performance
New entries as of March 21, 2017
- City Size, Distance and Formal Employment
- The expansion of economic protection for older adults in Latin America. Key design features of non-contributory pensions
- Institutions vs. Social Interactions in Driving Economic Convergence: Evidence from Colombia
- Sistemas de protección social en América Latina: una evaluación
- The Demand for Air Quality: A Case study in Bogotá, Colombia
New entries as of March 14, 2017
- Desigualdad de aprendizajes en Uruguay: determinantes de los resultados de PISA 2012
- The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
- Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America: Do the Characteristics of the Political System Matter?
- Taxation and inequality in developing countries - Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America
- The Trade-Off between Reforms and Checks and Balances
New entries as of March 7, 2017
- The paradox of land reform, inequality and development in Colombia
- Rising Incomes and Inequality of Access to Infrastructure among Latin American Households
- Technological innovation and employment in derived labour demand models: a hierarchical meta-regression analysis
- Rent Creation and Rent Containment
- Contestability and Changes in Tolerance towards Corruption
New entries as of February 28, 2017
- The impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Chile
- Economic Growth and Industrialization on the 2030 Agenda: Prospects for Mexico
- Territorio e igualdad: planificación del desarrollo con perspectiva de género
- Challenges in the Economic and Sociodemographic Transition of Mexico and Vietnam
- The Cement Industry in Mexico: An Analysis of its Determinants
- Brazil and China: Paths of Strengths and Turmoil
New entries as of February 21, 2017
- The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies: A Structural-Change Perspective
- National Care System in Uruguay. Who benefits and who pays?
- Occupational Choice and Matching in the Labor Market
- Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Low and Middle Income Countries
- Affordable Higher Education in Mexico
New entries as of February 14, 2017
- The structural constraints of income inequality in Latin America
- Innovation in Electronic Payment Adoption: The case of small retailers
- Aspectos institucionales de los sistemas de pensiones en América Latina
- Los costos del crimen y de la violencia: Nueva evidencia y hallazgos en América Latina y el Caribe
- Starting strong Implementation of the social SDGs in Latin America
New entries as of February 7, 2017
- New Stuff or Better Ways: What Matters to Survive International Markets?
- Affirmative Action Outcomes - Evidence from a Law School in Brazil
- Land frontier expansion in settler economies (1830- 1950): Was it a Ricardian process?
- Cómo Captar las Rentas del Cobre en Chile
- La dinámica reciente del bienestar de los niños en Uruguay. Un estudio en base a datos longitudinales
New entries as of January 31, 2017
- Ethno-racial poverty and income inequality in Brazil
- A comprehensive analysis of the wage curve in Brazil: non-linearities, urban size, and the spatial dimension
- Measuring the redistributive impact of taxes and transfers in the presence of reranking
- Opportunities Seized, Opportunities Missed: Differences in the Economic Impact of Bean Research in Five Latin American Countries
- Inflation Bias in Latin America
- A time series analysis of household income inequality in Brazil 1977-2013
New entries as of January 24, 2017
- The Role of Political Economy Analysis in Development Policy Operations
- BM and FBOVESPA Sustainability Index and the Responsible Practices of Brazilian Corporations
- Documento de enfoque: Revisión del respaldo del BID a la política y la administración tributarias, 2007-2016
- América Latina y el Caribe en PISA 2015: ¿Cuántos tienen bajo desempeño?
- How Safe Are Caribbean Homes for Women and Children?: Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence and Corporal Punishment
New entries as of January 17, 2017
- Redistribution, inequality and political participatio. Evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis
- An Analysis of the Impact of External Financial Risks on the Sovereign Risk Premium of Latin American Economies
- Los determinantes y la persistencia de la sobreeducación en el Perú
- The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in El Salvador
- Job Quality and Poverty in Latin America
New entries as of January 10, 2017
- Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in Brazil
- Nuevas Estimaciones de la Riqueza Regalada a las Grandes Empresas de la Minería Privada del Cobre: Chile 2005-2014
- Cash transfers in Latin America. Effects on poverty and redistribution
- The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance when Informal Employment is High
- Capital Allocation across Regions, Sectors and Firms: evidence from a commodity boom in Brazil
Top entries of the 2016
- The Effects of Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations on the Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence in Uruguay
- Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America
- Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Inter-Generational Poverty Trap?
- Do Government Audits Reduce Corruption? Estimating the Impacts of Exposing Corrupt Politicians
- Output gaps and policy stabilisation in Latin America: the effect of commodity and capital flow cycles
