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 May 23, 2023

• More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility
• Immigration, Household Production, and Native Women's Labor Market Outcomes: A Survey of a Global Phenomenon
• A Proposal to Issue SDR-Denominated Treasury Bonds: The Case for Colombia
• The impacts of studying abroad: Evidence from a government-sponsored scholarship program in Brazil
• Rooting for the Same Team: On the Interplay between Political and Social Identities in the Formation of Social Ties

New entries as of May 16, 2023

• The Politics of Transforming Education in Peru: 2007-2020
• Better Strategies for Saving More: Evidence from Three Interventions in Chile
• Social protection floor gaps and pandemic relief measures: a case for universalism? Exploring scalability through targeted versus universalist approaches
• Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial 2021: Datos para una vida mejor
• The Boltzmann fair division for distributive justice

New entries as of May 2, 2023

• Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts: Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
• Import competition and social mobility: Evidence from Brazil
• The distributional effect of a migratory exodus in a developing country: the role of downgrading and regularization
• The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America: long-run implications on poverty and inequality
• Do governments stick to their announced fiscal rules? A study of Latin American and the Caribbean countries

New entries as of March 28, 2023

• Beyond tax-survey combination: inequality and the blurry household-firm border
• The demand for Domestic work in Chile and Uruguay. Association with time use patterns
• Más allá del problema de la adhesión: transferencias monetarias y sus efectos sobre el estigma. Evidencia para el programa AFAM – PE
• La respuesta fiscal frente al COVID-19 en Uruguay
• Emergency social protection against the impacts of the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence and lessons learned for universal, comprehensive, sustainable and resilient social protection systems

New entries as of March 21, 2023

• Brechas de género en el mercado laboral en tiempos de COVID -19 en América Latina y el Caribe
• Impact of COVID-19 on higher education: Evidence from Uruguay
• The Efficacy of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at Elite Universities
• Preparing the Macroeconomic Terrain for Renewed Growth
• News of disinflation and firms' expectations: new causal evidence
• Do Minimum Wage Hikes Lead to Employment Destruction? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina

New entries as of March 14, 2023

• Citizen Participation and Political Trust in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Machine Learning Approach
• When the music stops - holding bank executives accountable for misconduct
• Beware the Side Effects: Capital Controls, Trade, Misallocation and Welfare
• Latin America's Hard-to-Escape Stagnation Trap
• The Transition to Telework in Latin America and the Caribbean: Key Findings using LinkedIn data

New entries as of March 7, 2023

• Intergenerational mobility along the income distribution: estimates using administrative data for a developing country
• Desigualdades de género en la trayectoria académica de investigadores e investigadoras en Uruguay
• Réplica de una intervención de comunicación para cambiar conductas de crianza durante la pandemia de COVID-19: ¿exceso o falta de información?
• Reshoring, nearshoring and developing countries
• Long-term effects of rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills: Evidence from Peru​

New entries as of February 28, 2023

• Gender Gaps and Family Policies in Latin America
• Measurement of tax expenditures in Latin America
• Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter
• Closing Peru's Ethnic Gaps Amidst Sustained Economic Growth
• Promover la recuperación y la resiliencia de la población desplazada: lecciones de Colombia

New entries as of February 21, 2023

• The unintended environmental effect of a climate change adaptation strategy: evidence from the Colombian coffee sector
• Latin American telecommunications at the crossroads of passive infrastructure sharing
• Collapse and Recovery: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It
• El rol de la diaspora en la internalización de la economía Colombiana
• Time Series for Macroeconomics and Finance

New entries as of February 14, 2023

• Los desafíos de la mitigación del cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe: algunas propuestas de acción
• Central bank communication and social media: From silence to Twitter
• Language Models and Cognitive Automation for Economic Research
• Teacher Selection Instruments and Teacher Value-Added: Evidence From Peru
• Estudios sectoriales sobre el riesgo de facturación fraudulenta en las exportaciones colombianas de café y aceite de palma

New entries as of February 7, 2023

• Bringing Latin America into the Mainstream: The 1963 Rio de Janeiro Conference on Inflation and Growth
• Maternal Dengue and Health Outcomes of Children
• El Impacto Segregativo de las Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas y su Incidencia en los Aprendizajes
• Caring in times of COVID-19: A global study on the impact of the pandemic on care work and gender equality
• Selfish in payments, selfish in opportunities to obtain the payment
• Brazil Poverty and Equity Assessment : Looking Ahead of Two Crises
• From Dominant to Producer Currency Pricing: Dynamics of Chilean Exports

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