LACEA has decided to create its own Working Paper Series (LACEA.WPS) and publish high quality (but not yet peer-reviewed) research produced by a selected group of academics, with the main objetive to create goodwill which contributes to the rapid dissemination and discussion of research, which in turn enhances the name of the institution and widens its membership. LACEA's Associates, who were previously selected by the Executive Committee, have the exclusive right to publish their research in LACEA.WPS without any further a priori filter (although subject to the editorial guidelines and a posteriori revision if the case arises). To browse recent Working Papers by topic, author or year, please use the menu provided on both sides of this page.

Latest Working Papers:

2022

• When do more police induce more crime?, by Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Oscar Volij and Federico Weinschelbaum. Post date: February 3, 2022

• Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement, by Carolina Bernal, Mónica Ortiz, Mounu Prem and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: January 20, 2022

• Colombia: Democratic but Violent? by Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: January 13, 2022

​2021 

• Landmines: The local effects of demining, by Mounu Prem, Miguel Purroy and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: November 11, 2021

• Renegotiation and Discrimination in Symmetric Procurement Auctions, by Leandro Arozamena, Juan-José Ganuza and Federico Weinschelbaum. Post date: July 29, 2021

• Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage: Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data, by Jaerim Choi, Ivan Rivadeneyra and Kenia Ramirez. Post date: March 4, 2021

• Leadership, public health messaging, and containment of mobility in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic, by Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Eva O. Arceo-Gomez, Elia De la Cruz Toledo and Pedro J. Torres López. Post date: February 25, 2021

​2020 

• The Expansion of Corporate Bond Markets in East Asia and Latin America, by Facundo Abraham, Juan J. Cortina and Sergio L. Schmukler. Post date: December 24, 2020

• The Peace Baby Boom: Evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement with the FARC, by María Elvira Guerra-Cújar, Mounu Prem, Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: October 22, 2020

• The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills: Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence, by Orazio Attanasio, Áureo de Paula and Alessandro Toppeta. Post date: September 3, 2020

• COVID-19 sends the bill: Socially disadvantaged workers suffer the severest losses in earnings, by Tharcisio Leone. Post date: July 30, 2020

• An Econometric Analysis of a Calibrated Macroeconomic Model for the Dominican Republic: A Closer Look into Monetary Policy, by Paola Mariell Brens Ortega. Post date: July 23, 2020

• Media, Secret Ballot and Democratization in the US, by Leopoldo Fergusson, Juan Felipe Riaño and B.K. Song. Post date: July 16, 2020

• CSI in the tropics: Experimental evidence of improved public service delivery through coordination, by Daniela Collazos, Leopoldo Fergusson, Miguel La Rota, Daniel Mejía and Daniel Ortega. Post date: July 2, 2020

• Barren Lives: Drought shocks and agricultural vulnerability in the Brazilian Semi-Arid, by Lucas de Almeida Nogueira da Costa, André Albuquerque Sant’Anna and Carlos Eduardo Frickman Young. Post date: June 25, 2020

• Self-Selection into Corruption: Evidence from the Lab, by Pablo Brassiolo, Ricardo Estrada, Gustavo Fajardo and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: May 28, 2020

• Corruption in the times of Pandemia, by Jorge Gallego, Mounu Prem and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: May 14, 2020

• The perils of misusing remote sensing data: The case of forest cover, by Leopoldo Fergusson, Santiago Saavedra and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: May 7, 2020

• Development Effects of Electrification: A Meta-Analysis for Income, Labor and Educational Outcomes, by Raul Jimenez Mori. Post date: April 9, 2020

• Facebook Causes Protests, by Leopoldo Fergusson and Carlos Molina. Post date: March 12, 2020

• Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War, by Hâle Utar. Post date: February 27, 2020

• Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment, by Nicolás Ajzenman and Ruben Durante. Post date: February 20, 2020

• Regional Economic Development and Convergence Clubs in Uruguay, by Diego Aboal, Bibiana Lanzilotta, Martin Pereyra and Maria Paz Queraltó. Post date: February 13, 2020

• It’s Not Price; It’s Quality. Satisfaction and Price Fairness Perception, by Raul Jimenez Mori. Post date: January 23, 2020

​2019 

• Avoidable environmental disasters and infant health: Evidence from a mining dam collapse in Brazil, by Bladimir Carrillo, Daniel Da Mata, Lucas Emanuel, Daniel Lopes and Breno Sampaio. Post date: December 5, 2019

• Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: Evidence for Latin America, by Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani and Federico Weinschelbaum. Post date:  October 31, 2019

• Persuasive Propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage, by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky. Post date: October 24, 2019

• The rise and persistence of illegal crops: Evidence from a naive policy announcement, by Daniel Mejía, Mounu Prem and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: October 10, 2019

• The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence of Educational Persistence and the “Great Gatsby Curve" in Brazil, by Tharcisio Leone. Post date: October 3, 2019

• Bailing out environmental liabilities: moral hazard and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, by André Albuquerque Sant’Anna and Lucas Costa. Post date: September 26, 2019

• The human capital peace dividend, by Olga Namen, Mounu Prem and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: August 1, 2019

• Obstáculos a la Innovación, Innovación y Productividad en Paraguay, by Diego Aboal and Marcelo Perera. Post date: June 27, 2019

• More hospital choices, more C-sections: Evidence from Chile, by Ramiro de Elejalde and Eugenio Giolito. Post date: June 20, 2019

• Measuring the Effect of Competitive Teacher Recruitment on Student Achievement: Evidence from Ecuador, by Maria Daniela Araujo P. Post Date: May 9, 2019

• How Effective are Innovation Support Programs to Stimulate Innovation? Evidence from Paraguay, by Diego Aboal, Gustavo Rojas, Belén Servín and Paz Queraltó. Post date: April 11, 2019

• Present Bias and Underinvestment in Education? Long-run Effects of Childhood Exposure to Booms in Colombia, by Bladimir Carrillo. Post date: March 28, 2019

• Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations, by Mateus Dias, Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo R. Soares. Post date: February 14, 2019

• Job creation in Colombia vs the U.S.: “up or out dynamics” meets “the life cycle of plants”, by Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger and Alvaro Pinzón. Post date: February 7, 2019

• Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil, by Sonia Bhalotra, Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo R. Soares. Post date: January 31, 2019

• End-of-conflict deforestation: evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement, by Mounu Prem, Santiago Saavedra and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: January 24, 2019

​2018 

• How Large Are the Contributions of Cities to the Development of Rural Communities? A Market Access. Approach for a Quarter Century of Evidence from Chile, by Juan Soto, Milena Vargas and Julio A. Berdegué. Post date: December 21, 2018

• Killing social leaders for territorial control: the unintended consequences of peace, by Mounu Prem, Andrés Rivera, Darío Romero and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: December 13, 2018

• What's Behind Her Smile? Looks, Self-Esteem, and Labor Market Outcomes, by Francisco Gallego, Cristian Larroulet and Andrea Repetto. Post date: November 15, 2018

• The not-so-generalized effects of the Generalized System of Preferences, by Emanuel Ornelas and Marcos Ritel. Post date: November 8, 2018

• Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing, by Emanuel Ornelas, John L. Turner and Grant Bickwit. Post date: November 1, 2018

• Peer Effects in the Adoption of a Youth Employment Subsidy, by Claudio A. Mora-García and Tomás Rau. Post date: October 25, 2018

• Brothers or Invaders? How Crisis-driven Migrants Shape Voting Behavior, by Sandra Rozo and Juan F. Vargas. Post date: October 19, 2018

• Public Development Banks and Credit Market Imperfections, by Marcela Eslava and Xavier Freixas. Post date: September 27, 2019

• Differences in citation patterns across journal tiers in economics, by María Victoria Anauati, Sebastian Galiani and Ramiro H. Gálvez. Post date: September 20, 2018

• Political Competition and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land Allocation Program in Mexico, by Leopoldo Fergusson, Horacio Larreguy and Juan Felipe Riaño. Post date: August 16, 2018

• The Effectiveness of Sin Food Taxes: Evidence from Mexico, by Arturo Aguilar, Emilio Gutierrez and Enrique Seira. Post date: July 12, 2018

• Crime and Durable Goods, by Sebastian Galiani, Laura Jaitman and Federico Weinschelbaum. Post date: July 5, 2018

• Roadways, Input Sourcing, and Patterns of Specialization, by Esteban Jaimovich.  June 28, 2018

• Stirring Up a Hornets’ Nest: Geographic Distribution of Crime, by Sebastian Galiani, Ivan Lopez Cruz and Gustavo Torrens. Post date: June 7, 2018

• Vintage-specific driving restrictions, by Nano Barahona, Francisco Gallego and Juan-Pablo Montero. Post date: May 17, 2018

• On the heterogeneous effects of market-access barriers: Evidence from small and large Peruvian exporters, by Marco Fugazza, Marcelo Olarreaga and Cristian Ugarte. Post date: May 10, 2018

• How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets, by Nathan Converse, Eduardo Levy-Yeyati and Tomas Williams. Post date: Abril 9, 2018

• Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker’s Model of Employer Discrimination, by Guilherme Hirata and Rodrigo R. Soares. Post date: Abril 5, 2018

• Sunlight Disinfects? Free Media in Weak Democracies, by Leopoldo Fergusson, Juan F. Vargas and Mauricio A. Vela. Post date: March 29, 2018

• Recovering social networks from panel data: Identification, simulations and an application, by Áureo de Paula, Imran Rasul and Pedro CL Souza. Post date: March 22, 2018