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 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
