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 13, 2020
- Child Development in the Early Years: Parental Investment and the Changing Dynamics of Different Dimensions
- The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
- Poverty and Economic Dislocation Reduce Compliance with COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Protocols
- An overview of gender inequality in Latin America from a political economy perspective
- Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
- Heterogeneous effects of automation: How are young workers affected by a changing labor market?
New entries as of October 6, 2020
- Gender and Culture
- Big Data and Happiness
- Large Losses from Little Lies: Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality
- El Coronavirus y los retos para el trabajo de las mujeres en América Latina
- Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction
- Using Google data to understand governments’ approval in Latin America
New entries as of September 29, 2020
- La crisis de la desigualdad: América Latina y el Caribe en la encrucijada
- The Macroeconomic Effects of Macroprudential Policy: Evidence from a Narrative Approach
- Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Children: The Brazilian Case
- Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Colombian Labor Market: Disentangling the Effect of Sector-Specific Mobility Restrictions
- Millennials and the gender wage gap: Do millennial women face a glass ceiling?
New entries as of September 22, 2020
- The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of COVID-19 School Closures
- The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns and Expanded Social Assistance on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico
- Economic Costs of Preprimary Program Reductions due to COVID-19 Pandemic
- Sound Banks for Healthy Economies: Challenges for Policymakers in Latin America and the Caribbean in Times of Coronavirus
- A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
New entries as of September 15, 2020
- Impactos de la epidemia del coronavirus en el trabajo de las mujeres en el Perú
- Recovery from the Pandemic Crisis: Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Concerns
- COVID-19 y shock externo. Impactos económicos y opciones de política en el Perú
- To segregate, or to discriminate – that is the question: experiment on identity and social preferences
- The path to gender equality in Colombia: Are we there yet?
New entries as of September 8, 2020
- Impacto económico de los costos de ajuste de la industria de transporte aéreo a raíz de la pandemia del coronavirus en Colombia
- Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality
- Pattern recognition of financial institutions’ payment behavior
- Talent Allocation and Post-Reform Growth in Central America
- Gasto municipal en educación y su efecto en la distribución de ingresos a nivel local en Chile
New entries as of September 1, 2020
- A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
- Women’s Work, Housework and Childcare, before and during COVID-19
- Transmisión intergeneracional de la educación: los efectos directos e indirectos de la educación materna en el desarrollo infantil en una región de la selva peruana
- Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
- Hidden benefits of peace: The case of sexual violence
New entries as of August 25, 2020
- Compensating for Academic Loss: Online Learning and Student Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Global Integration Is More Important than Ever to Contain the Economic and Health Fallout and Exit the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
- Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil
- Ten facts about income inequality in advanced economies
- Incentives, Globalization, and Redistribution
New entries as of August 18, 2020
- Análisis de la Cultura como Potencial Contribuyente de la Economía de la Ciudad de La Paz utilizando Econometría e Inteligencia Artificial
- Un enfoque holístico de transición energética global
- Modernización de la administración de justicia a través de la inteligencia artificial
- Growth, Automation, and the Long-Run Share of Labor
- Las plataformas digitales, la productividad y el empleo en Colombia
New entries as of August 11, 2020
- Environmental impacts and policy responses to Covid-19: A view from Latin America
- Global Shocks And Emerging Economies: disentangling the commodity roller coaster
- Institutions, Opportunism and Prosocial Behavior: Some Experimental Evidence
- Smart Specialisation, an innovation bridge between the EU and Latin America
- Life expectancy at retirement and income levels in Chile
New entries as of August 4, 2020
- The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
- Baby Steps: The Gender Division of Childcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment
- De estructuras a servicios: El camino a una mejor infraestructura en América Latina y el Caribe
- Immigration and Violent Crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border
- Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap
New entries as of July 28, 2020
- Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances
- Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
- COVID-19 and The Rise of Intimate Partner Violence
- Does teaching school children about recycling reduce household waste?
- Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities
- COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
- Exposure to economic inequality at the age of 8 enhances prosocial behaviour in adult life
New entries as of July 21, 2020
- COVID-19 sends the bill: Socially disadvantaged workers suffer the severest losses in earnings
- Fiscal Rules in Times of Crisis
- A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations: Evidence from a Survey
- Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
New entries as of July 14, 2020
- Religion in Economic History: A Survey
- Audits and the Quality of Government
- Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow?
- The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post Great Recession Entrants
- Private Precaution and Public Restrictions: What Drives Social Distancing and Industry Foot Traffic in the COVID-19 Era?
New entries as of July 7, 2020
- Household Overcrowding and Mental Well-being: Better Safe than Sorry
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries
- Spatial divisions of poverty and wealth: How much does segregation matter for educational achievement?
- Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
- Demand for Safe Spaces Avoiding Harassment and Stigma
New entries as of June 30, 2020
- Entrepreneurship among Low-, Mid- and High-Income Workers in South America: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis
- El Impacto Asimétrico de la Cuarentena
- Does Economics Make You Sexist?
- Health versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic
- When to Release the Lockdown? A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Costs and Benefits
New entries as of June 23, 2020
- Inclusive growth without structural transformation? The case of Brazil
- Recursos naturales y crecimiento: Aspectos macro y microeconómicos, temas regulatorios, derechos ambientales e inclusión social
- Financial Disincentives to Formal Employment and Tax-Benefit Systems in Latin America
- Transferencias de Ingresos y Decisiones dentro del Hogar
- Health Shocks under Hospital Capacity Constraint: Evidence from Air Pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Economic and cultural determinants of elite attitudes toward redistribution
New entries as of June 16, 2020
- Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 145 Countries
- Monopsony in labor markets: a review. Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Inter-country Distancing, Globalization and the Coronavirus Pandemic
- An Event Study of COVID-19 Central Bank Quantitative Easing in Advanced and Emerging Economies
- Health Effects of Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Drug Prescriptions
- Precarity and the pandemic: COVID-19 and poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries
New entries as of June 9, 2020
- El impacto de la COVID-19 en América Latina: se requieren respuestas fuera del libreto
- Market income inequality, left-wing political parties, and redistribution in Latin America
- Economic Policy Incentives to Preserve Lives and Livelihoods
- The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market. Evidence from a public federal university in Brazil
- Risk Attitudes and Human Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- More roads, more conflict? The effect of rural roads on armed conflict and illegal economies in Colombia
- Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-country Evidence
- International and domestic interactions of macroprudential and monetary policies: the case of Chile
New entries as of June 2, 2020
- The Incubator of Human Capital: The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm
- Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
- Endogenous lifetime, intergenerational mobility and economic development
- Strategies to increase the take-up of social benefits. Evidence from a field experiment in a deeply vulnerable population
- How to Prioritize Early Childhood? A Note on the Recent Experience in Colombia
New entries as of May 26, 2020
- Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomized evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay
- What Do 50 Years of Census Records and Household Survey Data Tell Us about Human Opportunities and Welfare in Latin America?
- Mandatory Helmet Use and the Severity of Motorcycle Accidents: No Brainer?
- Trade agreements and Latin American trade (creation and diversion) and welfare
- Uncertain Penalties and Compliance
- Costs and Trade-Offs in the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Developing Country Perspective
New entries as of May 19, 2020
- Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
- Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
- Social and economic impact of the COVID-19 and policy options in Honduras
- LA COCA LEGAL: posibilidades y desafíos normativos para usos fitoterapéuticos de la hoja de coca en Colombia
- Tendencias que marcan a la sociedad durante el Coronavirus
New entries as of May 12, 2020
- More Than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior during a Pandemic
- Causes and Impacts of Job Displacements and Public Policy Responses
- COVID-19 and Social Protection of poor and vulnerable groups in Latin America. A conceptual framework
- Estrategias de reapertura de escuelas durante COVID-19
- An Opportunity to Build Legitimacy and Trust in Public Institutions in the Time of COVID-19
- COVID-19: Locking in solutions while in lockdown
New entries as of May 5, 2020
- ¿Cómo impactará la COVID-19 al empleo?: Posibles escenarios para América Latina y el Caribe
- Equal and Unequal Profit Sharing in Highly Interdependent Work Groups: A Laboratory Experiment
- It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects
- The Deterrent Effect of Surveillance Cameras on Crime
- The Innovation Premium to Soft Skills in Low-Skilled Occupations
New entries as of Aprl 28, 2020
- Tracking Labor Market Developments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Assessment
- Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health
- Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Latin American Economies: An Empirical Approach
- Was Falling Inequality in All Latin American Countries a Data-Driven Illusion? Income Distribution and Mobility Patterns in Uruguay 2009-2016
- Wandering Astray: Teenagers' Choices of Schooling and Crime
New entries as of Aprl 21, 2020
- Theory of Mind among Disadvantaged Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- Impacto de sistemas de selección por mérito, el caso de Chile post reforma
- Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
- Trust and Saving in Financial Institutions
- Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty
New entries as of Aprl 14, 2020
- Financing Firms in Hibernation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Políticas para combatir la pandemia
- How Two Tests Can Help Contain COVID-19 and Revive the Economy
- The “missing rich” in household surveys: causes and correction approaches
- Can Scholarships Increase High School Graduation Rates? Evidence from A Randomized Control Trial in Mexico
New entries as of Aprl 7, 2020
- The Distributive Impact of Taxes and Expenditures in Colombia
- Macroeconomic Policy in the Time of COVID-19 : A Primer for Developing Countries
- Child development and obesity prevention: evidence from the Chilean School Meals Program
- The Brazilian Bombshell? The Long-Term Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic the South American Way
- Trading off the Income Gains and the Inequality Costs of Trade Policy
New entries as of March 31, 2020
- Explorando sinergias en tiempos inciertos: La cooperación tributaria internacional y su relación con los desafíos tributarios latinoamericanos
- Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
- Not Playing Favorites: An Experiment on Parental Fairness Preferences
- Measuring Preferences for Competition with Experimentally-Validated Survey Questions
New entries as of March 24, 2020
- Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries
- Gasto público social: un análisis territorial
- How Big are Fiscal Multipliers in Latin America?
- Measuring and Explaining Management in Schools New Approaches Using Public Data
- Los incentivos y apoyos públicos a la producción en el Uruguay
New entries as of March 17, 2020
- The cost of being too patient
- Informality: Why Is It So Widespread and How Can It Be Reduced?
- The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
- Labor Market Dynamics, Informality and Regulations in Latin America
- Mecanismos de focalización de los programas de transferencias monetarias en América Latina: el caso del Uruguay
- Internal migration and crime in Brazil
New entries as of March 10, 2020
- Examining the life-cycle artistic productivity of Latin American photographers
- Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth: The case of Chile
- La Incidencia Distributiva del Gasto Público Social y su Financiamiento en la Provincia de Buenos Aires
- Chile’s Solidarity Pillar: A Benchmark for Adjoining Zero Pillar with DC Schemes
- The effects of wartime institutions on households’ ability to cope with shocks: Evidence for Colombia
- Decline in Wage Inequality in Brazil: A survey
New entries as of March 3, 2020
- Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 132 Countries
- Fragility and Conflict: On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty
- A Market for Work Permits
- Criminal Dominance and Campaign Concentration
- Machine Labor
New entries as of February 25, 2020
- Profesores a prueba: Claves para una evaluación docente exitosa
- Fundamental Utilitarianism and Intergenerational Equity with Extinction Discounting
- Who Demands Labour (De)Regulation in the Developing World? Insider–Outsider Theory Revisited
- Skill mismatch and labour turnover in a developing country: the Colombian case
- Financing PPP Projects with PVR contracts: Theory and evidence from the UK and Chile
- Proyección de la Inflación en Chile con Métodos de Machine Learning
New entries as of February 18, 2020
- Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Improve Treatment Adherence in Parenting Programs: An Application to SMS
- Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring
- Affirmative action with overlapping reserves
- Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data
- Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies
New entries as of February 11, 2020
- The Fight against Corruption : Taming Tigers and Swatting Flies
- Gender Gaps in Education
- The Revival of Agriculture and Inclusive Growth during the Commodity Boom in Latin America?
- Formal salaried employment generation and transition to formality in developing countries: the case of Latin America
- Brechas de Género: Una Exploración Más Allá de la Media
New entries as of February 4, 2020
- Air Quality Warnings and Temporary Driving Bans: Evidence from Air Pollution, Car Trips, and Mass-Transit Ridership in Santiago
- Myths of multipolarity: the sources of Brazilian overexpansion
- Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment in Developing Countries? A Survey and Exploration of Conflicting Evidence
- Unveiling Drivers of Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
- Technology and Big Data Are Changing Economics: Mining Text to Track Methods
New entries as of January 28, 2019
- Age with Care: Long-term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean
- How Do Early-Life Shocks Interact with Subsequent Human Capital Investments? Evidence from Administrative Data
- Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants’ Well-Being?
- Inequality in Latin America: The role of the nature of trade and partners
- Violence and Children’s Education: Evidence from Administrative Data
New entries as of January 21, 2019
- Housing program and social conditions impact: Evidences from Minha Casa Minha Vida program lotteries in Brazil
- Inflation Targets in Latin America
- Distributed photovoltaic generation in Brazil: Technological innovation, scenario methodology and regulatory frameworks
- Voting for Democracy: Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation
- The impact of wind power on the Brazilian labor market
New entries as of January 7, 2019
- Bread and Social Justice: Measurement of Social Welfare and Inequalities Using Anthropometrics
- Labor Contracts, Gift-Exchange and Reference Wages: Your Gift Need Not Be Mine!
- The D-score: a metric for interpreting the early development of infants and toddlers across global settings
- Generosity and Wealth: Experimental Evidence from Bogotá Stratification
- A Theory of Cultural Revivals
- Breaking Up: Experimental Insights into Economic (Dis)Integration
- The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning
