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 January 31, 2023

• Working from Home Around the World
• Dealing with Debt: Less Risk for More Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Inequality and Risk Preference
• Effects of the entry of food delivery apps in the restaurant industry: evidence from Brazil
• Response diversity as a sustainability strategy

New entries as of January 24, 2023

• Lasting Scars: The Unequal Impacts of Unemployment in Latin America
• The politics of pension policy responses to COVID-19: comparative insights from Chile, Bolivia and Peru
• How early nutrition and foundational cognitive skills interconnect? Evidence from two developing countries
• Growth Performance of Middle-Income Countries: East Asia vs. Latin America
• Reforming Education in the Context of Weak States: The Political Economy of Education Reforms in Peru 1995-2020
• Can Information on School Attributes and Placement Probabilities Direct Search and Choice? Evidence from Choice Platforms in Ecuador and Peru

New entries as of January 17, 2023

• Policy mix in a small open emerging economy with commodity prices
• Do junk food bans in school really reduce childhood overweight? Evidence from Brazil
• How Important Is Health Inequality for Lifetime Earnings Inequality?
• Worker Flows and Wage Dynamics: Estimating Wage Growth without Composition Effects
• The Effects of Foreign Investor Composition on Colombia’s Sovereign Debt Flows

Top entries of the 2022

• Reactivando para un mejor país después de la pandemia de COVID-19: una propuesta de diagnóstico de acción para el Perú
• Inequality hysteresis and the effectiveness of macroeconomic stabilisation policies
• ¿Cómo reconstruir la educación postpandemia? Soluciones para cumplir con la promesa de un mejor futuro para la juventud
• Nudging Parents to Increase Preschool Attendance in Uruguay
• The external effects of public housing developments on informal housing: The case of Medellín, Colombia