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 June 15, 2021

• Childcare Matters: Female Business Owners and the Baby-Profit Gap
• Humans Against Virus or Humans Against Humans: A Game Theory Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Indicador coincidente de actividad económica en la recesión pandémica: el caso del Caribe colombiano
• Optimal Climate and Fiscal Policy in an OLG economy
• The dawn of a mobile payment scheme: The case of Movii

New entries as of June 8, 2021

• Capital Controls, Domestic Macroprudential Policy and the Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy
• The invisible COVID-19 graveyard: intergenerational losses for the poorest young people and actions to address a human development pandemic
• Does Central Bank Independence Increase Inequality?
• Employment effects of joining global production networks: Does domestic value added matter?
• La inversión en infraestructura de transporte y la economía colombiana

New entries as of June 1, 2021

• IT Shields: Technology Adoption and Economic Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Do corporate tax cuts boost economic growth?
• The potential of the Green Bond markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature
• América Latina en movimiento: Competencias y habilidades para la Cuarta Revolución Industrial en el contexto de pandemia

New entries as of May 25, 2021

• La tormenta perfecta: el COVID-19 en las economías emergentes
• Income inequality and the depth of economic downturns
• A review of evidence on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems
• The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
• Banks in Colombia: How Homogeneous Are They?

New entries as of May 18, 2021

• The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics
• Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Forward Looking Loan Provisions: Credit Supply and Risk-Taking
• Elasticidad precio de la demanda para planes voluntarios de salud de Colombia
• Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil

New entries as of May 11, 2021

• Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infections
• What lies beneath evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking
• Life and death during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic: An analysis of cross-country differences in changes in quantity and quality of life
• Costos del comercio en el procesamiento de los pagos en Colombia
• Population displacement and urban conflict: Global evidence from more than 3300 flood events
• Monetary Policy Response to a Migration Shock: An Analysis for a Small Open Economy

New entries as of May 4, 2021

• Take me out: De facto limits on strict lockdowns in developing countries
• Remote talks: changes to economics seminars during Covid-19
• Family Matters: How Immigrant Histories Can Promote Inclusion
• Pandemic divergence: A short note on COVID-19 and global income inequality
• Women in Academic Economics: Have We Made Progress?

New entries as of April 27, 2021

• The Pink Tide and Inequality in Latin America
• Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages
• Life Satisfaction and the Human Development Index Across the World
• Fair and Inclusive Markets: Why Dynamism Matters
• Learning loss due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Tributación indirecta sobre la economía digital y su potencial recaudatorio en América Latina. Emparejando la cancha en tiempos de crisis

New entries as of April 20, 2021

• Qué tanto se agudizó el panorama de los jóvenes en el mercado laboral en Colombia a raíz de la pandemia del Covid-19?
• Incidence of COVID-19 in the Bolivian Economy: How Much Can We Learn from a Pandemic Shock?
• Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic as a Potential Catalyst of Selected Economic Concepts Modification
• Getting to a feasible income equality
• Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth - A Survey
• Influencers on Economic Issues in Latin America, Spain and the United States
• Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil

New entries as of April 13, 2021

• Earnings Cyclicality of New and Continuing Jobs: The Role of Tenure and Transition Length
• Marriage Dynamics, Earnings Dynamics, and Lifetime Family Income
• Maternal depression and child human capital: A genetic instrumental-variable approach
• The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
• Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth
• Women’s Voice on Redistribution: from Gender Norms to Taxation

New entries as of April 6, 2021

• Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America
• Motherhood and flexible jobs. Evidence from Latin American countries
• Integrating Latin America and the Caribbean: Potential effects of removing tariffs and streamlining non-tariff measures
• A Fiscal Rule to achieve debt sustainability in Colombia
• Measuring Racial Discrimination in Algorithms
• Oportunidades para un mayor crecimiento sostenible tras la pandemia

New entries as of March 30, 2021

• What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence
• Endogenous Education and Long-Run Factor Shares
• Rules, institutions, or both? Estimating the drivers of telecommunication investment in Latin America
• The Social Divide of Social Distancing: Lockdowns in Santiago during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Populism, Protectionism, and Political Instability
• The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents: Does the Grandparent’s Child’s Gender Matter?

New entries as of March 23, 2021

• Competing by Default: A New Way to Break the Glass Ceiling
• The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
• Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018
• The Health Benefits of Solar Power Generation: Evidence from Chile
• Incidencia del COVID-19 en la Economía de Bolivia: ¿Qué Tanto Podemos Aprender de un Shock Pandémico?
• Experimentos clásicos de economía. Evidencia de laboratorio de Perú
• Gender Gaps in Latin American Labor Markets: Implications from an Estimated Search Model

New entries as of March 16, 2021

• Where Does Wealth Come From?
• Longer-Run Effects of Antipoverty Policies on Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
• Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance
• Segregación Escolar Público-Privado por Nivel Socioeconómico en Uruguay: Un Análisis en Base a Microdescomposiciones
• What Makes a Tax Evader?
• Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
• Changes in occupations and their task content Implications for employment and inequality in Argentina, 2003–19
• Do you want to migrate to the United States? Migration intentions and Cultural Traits in Latin America

New entries as of March 9, 2021

• Distributional Effects of International Trade: Misconceptions about Losses and Gains
• The Career Evolution of the Sex Gap in Wages: Discrimination vs. Human Capital Investment
• Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on loss of jobs and hours among domestic workers
• From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19
• Another brick on the Wall: On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being

New entries as of March 2, 2021

• Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: Prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
• Do High Aspirations Lead to Better Outcomes? Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey of Adolescents in Peru
• Mixed Oligopoly and Market Power Mitigation: Evidence from the Colombian Wholesale Electricity Market
• The Endogenous Formation of Common Pool Resource Coalitions
• Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America
• Five Ways that COVID-19 Diagnostics Can Save Lives: Prioritizing Uses of Tests to Maximize Cost-Effectiveness

New entries as of February 23, 2021

• Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off farm employment? Evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
• Large Devaluations and Inflation Inequality: Evidence from Brazil
• Automatización y empleo en Uruguay
• Estimating the effects of school subsidies targeted at low-income students: Evidence from Chile
• Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development
• The Boom in Corporate Borrowing after the Global Financial Crisis: Different Tales from East Asia and Latin America

New entries as of February 16, 2021

• Conclusions and Recommendations of the Evaluation of Four Decades of Pension Privatization in Latin America: Promises and Reality
• Causal Machine Learning and Business Decision Making
• Self-employment and subjective well-being
• Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment
• Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare

New entries as of February 9, 2021

• Why Do People Stay Poor?
• The Effect of Gender and Gender Pairing on Bargaining: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
• Labor Earnings Dispersion in Chile: Decomposition, Dynamics and the Role of Firms
• Promoción de exportaciones y desempeño exportador: el caso de Chile
• Bajos niveles de lectura en los jóvenes universitarios: un problema estructural. Una explicación desde la teoría de Emile Durkheim

New entries as of February 2, 2021

• The governance of regulators in Latin America: Evidence from the 2018 Indicators on the governance of sector regulators
• The Fiscal Cost of Conflict: Evidence from La Violencia in Colombia
• El aporte de la biotecnología médica frente a la pandemia de COVID-19 y lecciones para su desarrollo mediante las estrategias nacionales de bioeconomía: estudios de caso de Colombia, Costa Rica y el Uruguay
• Trade Liberalization, Income, and Multidimensional Deprivation in Brazil
• Unemployment insurance in Chile: lessons from a high inequality developing country
• Building an Epidemiology of Happiness
• Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions

New entries as of January 26, 2021

• Commercial and banking credit network in Uruguay
• Fiscal policy and inflation expectations
• Congestion in Latin American Cities: Innovative Approaches for a Critical Issue
• Price, sales, and the business cycle: a time series principal component analysis
• COVID-19 and global income inequality
• Structure and Competition in the Uruguayan Banking Sector
• The natural rate of interest for an emerging economy: the case of Uruguay
• Pay for Performance for Prenatal Care and Newborn Health: Evidence from a Developing Country

New entries as of January 19, 2021

• Short and Long-Run Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America
• The Easterlin Paradox
• Informality and work status
• Reactivación económica con enfoque de género en tiempos de Covid-19
• Gender Wage Gap and Firm Market Power: Evidence from Chile
• The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage
• Inequality and Social Policy in Latin America

New entries as of January 12, 2021

• Resource abundance and public finances in five peripheral economies, 1850-1939
• A resource-rich neighbor is a misfortune: The spatial distribution of the resource curse in Brazil
• Riesgo Causado por la Propagación de las Pérdidas por Terremoto a través de la Economía Mediante el uso de Modelos CGE Espaciales
• El Rol de la Inversión Pública: El Caso de Bolivia
• The Spread of COVID-19 and Policy Responses

New entries as of January 5, 2021

• Unveiling cacao agroforestry sustainability through the socio-ecological systems diagnostic framework: the case of four amazonian rural communities in Ecuador
• Entendiendo la paradoja de la maternidad adolescente en Lima Metropolitana: Un análisis de los efectos de vecindario en el 2013
• U.S. Robots and their Impacts in the Tropics: Evidence from Colombian Labor Markets
• Staying at the Top: The Ph.D. Origins of Economics Faculty
• Minimum wages in monopsonistic labor markets

Top entries of 2020

• Environmental impacts and policy responses to Covid-19: A view from Latin America
• Explorando sinergias en tiempos inciertos: La cooperación tributaria internacional y su relación con los desafíos tributarios latinoamericanos
• Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty
• Análisis de la Cultura como Potencial Contribuyente de la Economía de la Ciudad de La Paz utilizando Econometría e Inteligencia Artificial
• Macroeconomic Policy in the Time of COVID-19 : A Primer for Developing Countries