On this page you can find the latest academic papers and presentations on Latin America and the Caribbean.  

New entries on 11 June, 2013

Implications of the recent macroeconomic policies on employment and labour market outcomes in Peru
María Lucía Guerra

Multidimensional perspective of poverty, and its relation with the informal labor market: an application to ecuadorian and turkish data
Armagan T. Aktuna Gunes and Carla Canelas

Digital money and its impact on local economic variables. The case of Uruguay
Adriana Cassoni and Camilo Ramada

Household debt during the financial crisis: micro-evidence from Chile
Roberto Alvarez and Luis Opazo

New entries on 17 May,  2013

Evaluating antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa
Armando Barrientos and Juan M. Villa

Trade and labor reallocation with heterogeneous enforcement of labor regulations
Rita K. Almeida and Jennifer P. Poole

Estabilidad de la demanda de trabajo y efecto del salario minimo sobre el empleo: el caso chileno
Jorge Miranda

Double penalty in returns to education: informality and educational mismatch in the Colombian labour market
Paula Herrera, Enrique López-Bazo and Elisabet Motellón

New entries on 8 May,  2013

La ‘parte del león’: Nuevas estimaciones de la participación de los súper ricos en el ingreso de Chile
Ramón E. López, Eugenio Figueroa B. and Pablo Gutiérrez C.

¿Qué tan desalineados están los precios de la vivienda en Colombia?
Roberto Steiner, Natalia Salazar Ferro, Alejandro Becerra and Jaime Ramírez

Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case
Gustavo Adolfo García and Catia Nicodemo

New entries on 7 May,  2013

Subempleo por ingresos y funcionamiento del mercado de trabajo en Colombia
Luis Eduardo Arango Thomas, Diana Carolina Escobar and Emma Mercedes Sandoval

Is labor income responsible for poverty reduction ? a decomposition approach
Joao Pedro Azevedo, Gabriela Inchauste, Sergio Olivieri, Jaime Saavedra and Hernan Winkler

Yet Another Look at the Modernisation Hypothesis: Evidence from South America
Manoel Bittencourt

Determinants of Government and External Debt: Evidence from the Young Democracies of South America
Manoel Bittencourt

New entries on 30 April, 2013

Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata
Raul Ramos, Juan Carlos Duque and Sandra Nieto

Overlapping Regionalism, No Integration: Conceptual Issues and the Latin American Experiences
Andrés Malamud

Subempleo por ingresos y funcionamiento del mercado de trabajo en Colombia
Luis Eduardo Arango Thomas, Diana Carolina Escobar and Emma Monsalve

Small Is Not Beautiful: Firm-Level Evidence of the Link between Credit, Firm Size and Competitiveness in Colombia
Arturo Galindo and Marcela Melendez

Measuring Impoverishment: An Overlooked Dimension of Fiscal Incidence
Sean Higgins and Nora Lustig

New entries on 26 April, 2013

The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview
Nora Lustig, Carola Pessino and John Scott

Projections of dynamic generational tables and longevity risk in Chile
Javier Alonso, David Tuesta, Diego Torres and Begona Villamide

Export entrepreneurship and trade structure in Latin America during good and bad times
Ana M. Fernandes, Daniel Lederman and Mario Gutierrez-Rocha

Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America
Julian Donaubauer, Dierk Herzer and Peter Nunnenkamp

New entries on 24 April, 2013

Changes in Wage Structure in Mexico Going Beyond the Mean: An Analysis of Differences in Distribution, 1987-2008
Claudia Tello, Raul Ramos and Manuel Artís

Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America
Nora Lustig, Luis F. Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

Trade, competition and quality-upgrading: A theory with evidence from Colombia
Daniel Yi Xu, Ana Cecilia Fieler and Marcela Eslava

Violent Behaviour: The effect of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia
Dominik Noe and Johannes Rieckmann

Private vs Public Antitrust Enforcement: Evidence from Chile
Aldo González and Alejandro Micco

New entries on 23 April, 2013

Commodity prices and the business cycle in Latin America: Living and dying by commodities?
Maximo Camacho and Gabriel Perez-Quiros

Productive development policies in Latin America: Past and present
Manuel R. Agosin 

La Política de Seguridad Democrática 2002-2006: efectos socioeconómicos en las áreas rurales
Gerson Javier Pérez Valbuena

Convergencia y trampas espaciales de pobreza en Colombia: Evidencia reciente
Luis Armando Galvis and Adolfo Meisel

Potentiality of reverse mortgages to supplement pension: the case of Chile
Javier Alonso, María Lamuedra and David Tuesta 

New entries on 17 April, 2013

Social spending, taxes and income redistribution in Uruguay
Marisa Bucheli, Nora Lustig, Maximo Rossi and Florencia Amabile

Forecasting Latin-American yield curves: An artificial neural network approach
Daniel Vela 

The Rise in Female Participation in Colombia: Fertility, Marital Status or Education?
Diego Amador, Raquel Bernal and Ximena Peña

Las externalidades de los Programas de Transferencias Condicionadas sobre el crimen: el caso de Familias en Acción en Bogotá
Adriana Camacho y Daniel Mejía

New entries on 15 April, 2013

Is Inflation Targeting Still on Target? The Recent Experience of Latin America
Luis Felipe Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco

Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata
Raúl Ramos, Juan Carlos Duque and Sandra Nieto

Family size and children quality: New evidence and new exogenous shocks in the case of Colombian Households
Román David Zárate

Credit Constraints, Sector Informality and Firm Investments: Evidence from a Panel of Uruguayan Firms
Nestor Gandelman and Alejandro Rasteletti

Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Vito Peragine

New entries on 8 April, 2013

Innovation and productivity: evidence for 4 Latin American countries manufacturing industry
M. Constanza Demmel, Juan A. Máñez, María E. Rochina-Barrachina and Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis

Social Determinants of Child Health in Colombia: Can Community Education Moderate the Effect of Family Characteristics?
Ana Maria Osorio, Catalina Bolancé, Nyovane Madise and Katharina Rathmann

Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Postsecondary Degrees: Evidence from Chile
Loreto Reyes, Jorge Rodríguez and Sergio S. Urzúa

Micro-Entrepreneurship Training and Asset Transfers: Short Term Impacts on the Poor
Claudia Martínez A., Esteban Puentes and Jaime Ruiz-Tagle

Conditional Cash Transfers, Payment Dates and Labor Supply: Evidence from Peru
Fernando Fernandez and Victor Saldarriaga

New entries on 2 April, 2013

Don't make war, make elections franchise extension and violence in XIXth-century Colombia
Leopoldo Fergusson y Juan F. Vargas

Las externalidades de los Programas de Transferencias Condicionadas sobre el crimen: el caso de Familias en Acción en Bogotá
Adriana Camacho y Daniel Mejía

Mujer y movilidad social
Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Hugo Ñopo y Jorge Luis Castañeda

The Rise in Female Participation in Colombia: Fertility, Marital Status or Education?
Diego Amador, Raquel Bernal y Ximena Peña

Effects of Innovation on Employment in Latin America
Gustavo Crespi and Ezequiel Tacsir

The Potential Impact of Brazil’s Transportation Efficiencies on World Cotton Trade
Delmy L. Salin

New entries on 21 March, 2013

The Distribution of Income in Central America
T. H. Gindling and Juan Diego Trejos

Forecasting Latin-American yield curves: An artificial neural network approach
Daniel Vela 

Fifteen years of inequality in Latin America: how have labor markets helped?
Joao Pedro Azevedo, María Eugenia Dávalos, Carolina Díaz-Bonilla, Bernardo Atuesta, Raúl Andrés Castañeda

Gasto Público y Movilidad y Equidad Social
Andrés Escobar and Mauricio Olivera

New entries on 25 February, 2013

What is happening with El Salvador's CCT programmes
Fábio Veras Soares

Regression discontinuity impacts with an implicit index: evaluating El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales Transfer Programme
Alan de Brauw

Oportunidades and Bolsa Familia: a comparative perspective of their evolution
Fábio Veras Soares

The expansion of non-contributory transfers in Uruguay in recent years
Verónica Amarante and Andrea Vigorito

New entries on 18 February, 2013

Monetary Transfers for Children and Adolescents in Argentina: Characteristics and Coverage of a "System" with Three Components
Fabio Bertranou and Roxana Maurizio

Enrollment and quality levels of Colombia’s public basic education: Has fiscal decentralization improved them?
Ignacio Lozano and María Adelaida Martínez

New entries on 14 February, 2013

Aportaciones compartidas para pensiones en Colombia, México y Perú: Experiencias y perspectivas.
Luis Carranza, Ángel Melguizo, David Tuesta

The Unemployment Subsidy Program in Colombia: An Assessment.
Carlos Medina, Jairo Núñez, Jorge Andrés Tamayo

Migración y Mercado Laboral en Chile.
Dante Contreras, Jaime Ruiz-Tagle and Paulina Sepúlveda

New entries on 11 February, 2013

Trade Barriers in Policies that Regulate Greenhouse Gases.
Ronaldo Seroa da Motta

Indicators for Assessing the Vulnerability of Smallholder Farming to Climate Change: the Case of Brazil's Semi-Arid Northeastern Region.
International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth

Vulnerability of Brazilian Megacities to Climate Change: The São Paulo Metropolitan Region.
International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth 

Recursos Naturales y Crecimiento Económico en Colombia: ¿Maldición de los Recursos?
Jacobo Campo Robledo y Wilmer Andrés Sanabria

The Climate Justice Discourse in Brazil: Potential and Perspective
Bruno Milanez and Igor F. Fonseca

New entries on 8 February, 2013

The Middle-Income Trap: Comparing Asian and Latin American Experiences
Anna Jankowska, Arne J. Nagengast and José Ramón Perea

Social Protection in Ecuador: A New Vision for Inclusive Growth
Ryan Nehring

Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Vito Peragine

New entries on 7 February, 2013

Economic Growth and Inequality: Evidence from the Young Democracies of South America
Manoel Bittencourt

Gender equality and economic growth in Brazil: a long-run analysis
Pierre-Richard Agenor and Otaviano Canuto

The Expansion of Cash Transfers in Chile and its Challenges: Ethical Family Income
Simone Cecchini, Claudia Robles and Luis Hernán Vargas

New entries on 31 January, 2013

Las tecnologías de la información y el cambio climático en países en desarrollo
Fernando Borraz

Social capital and economic performance: trust and distrust in eighteenth-century gold shipments from Brazil
Leonor Freire Costa, Maria Manuela Rocha and Tanya Araujo

Higher education dropouts, access to credit, and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Chile
Tomás Rau, Eugenio Rojas and Sergio Urzúa 

Sovereign Dept in Latin America, 1820–1913
Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor

New entries on 29 January, 2013

Social spending and income redistribution in Argentina during the 2000s: the rising role of noncontributory pensions
Nora Lustig and Carola Pessino

The impact of economic policy and structural change on gender employment inequality in Latin America, 1990-2010
Stephanie Seguino and Elissa Braunstein

Equality of educational opportunity employing PISA data: taking both achievement and access into account
Márcia de Carvalho, Fábio D. Waltenberg and Luis Fernando Gamboa

La Política de Primera Infancia en el Contexto de la Equidad y Movilidad Social en Colombia
Raquel Bernal y Adriana Camacho
Jan. 24, 2013 

Equidad en la Diferencia: Políticas para la Movilidad Social de Grupos de Identidad. Misión de Movilidad Social y Equidad
Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Hugo Ñopo and Jorge Luis Castañeda
Jan. 24, 2013 

El efecto de las condiciones de ingreso al mercado de trabajo en los jóvenes uruguayos. Un análisis basado en la protección de la seguridad social
Paula Carrasco
Jan. 18, 2013 

Unemployment insurance design and its effects: evidence from de Uruguayan case
Verónica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim and Andres Dean
Jan. 18, 2013 

Peer effects identified through social networks. Evidence from uruguayan schools
Gioia de Melo
Jan. 18, 2013

Productivity and structural heterogeneity in the Brazilian manufacturing sector: trends and determinants
Eva Yamila Catela, Mario Cimoli and Gabriel Porcile
Jan. 18, 2013

Desigualdad de Resultados y Oportunidades en Colombia: 1997-2010
Francisco H.G. Ferreira y Marcela Meléndez
Jan. 17, 2013

Movilidad social en Colombia
Roberto Angulo, Alejandro Gaviria, Gustavo Nicolás Páez and Joao Pedro Azevedo
Jan. 17, 2013

Dinámica del mercado laboral uruguayo
Verónica Amarante and Andrés Dean
Jan. 17, 2013

Protecting workers against unemployment in Uruguay
Verónica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim and Andrés Dean
Jan. 17, 2013

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Hartmut Lehmann and Alexander Muravyev
Jan. 17, 2013

Formación para el Trabajo en Colombia
Juan Esteban Saavedra y Carlos Medina
Jan. 17, 2013

The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?
Marco Stampini and Leopoldo Tornarolli
Jan. 17, 2013

Incentivos tributarios para la I+D+i en Argentina: Una evaluación de las políticas recientes
Roberto Giuliodori and Roberto Giuliodori
Dic. 19, 2012

Evaluación de Impacto del Programa de Becas Fondo de Cesantía Solidario 2007
Eduardo Fajnzylber and Susana Ojeda
Dic. 19, 2012

Implicit redistribution in the Chilean Social Insurance System
Eduardo Fajnzylber
Dic. 19, 2012

El efecto del orden de nacimiento sobre el atraso escolar en el Perú
Luis García Núñez
Dic. 18, 2012

Cambio estructural y demanda de trabajo calificado en Colombia en el periodo 1950 – 2007
Edgar Vicente Marcillo Yépez
Dic. 18, 2012

Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America
Julian Donaubauer, Dierk Herzer and Peter Nunnenkamp
Dic. 18, 2012

The Federal Reserve, Emerging Markets, and Capital Controls: A High Frequency Empirical Investigation
Sebastian Edwards
Dic. 13, 2012

Un Fondo de Reservas Regional para América Latina
Daniel Titelman, Cecilia Vera, Pablo Carvallo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey
Dic. 13, 2012

Business Cycles, International Trade and Capital Flows: Evidence from Latin America
Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Alessandro Girardi
Dic. 13, 2012

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
H. Lehmann and A. Muravyev
Dic. 13, 2012

Testing the law of one price in retail banking: An analysis for Colombia using a pair-wise approach
Ana María Iregui and Jesús Otero
Access Paper - Nov. 30, 2012

Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F. and Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo
Access Paper - Nov. 29, 2012

Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo R. Soares
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Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas
Fernando Rios-Avila and Barry T. Hirsch
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Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
Alejandra Mizala and Hugo Nopo
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No Child Left Without: A Universal Benefit for Children in Brazil
Sergei Soares and Pedro Ferreira
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The Expansion of Cash Transfers in Chile and its Challenges: Ethical Family Income 
Simone Cecchini, Claudia Robles and Luis Hernán Vargas
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Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latina America 
Guillermo Cruces, Carolina García Domenech, and Leonardo Gasparini
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The Global Financial Crisis and Currency Crises in Latin America 
Gerard H. Kuper, Jan P.A.M. Jacobs, and, Tjeerd M. BoonMan
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Impact Evaluation of a Private Managed Tuition-Free Middle School in a Poor Neighborhood in Montevideo
Ana I. Balsa and Alejandro Cid
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When Do People Become Adults? The Uruguayan Case
Máximo Rossi and Natalia Melgar
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On the Effectiveness of Child Care Centers in Promoting Child Development in Ecuador
José Rosero
Access Paper - Sep. 10, 2012

Polarización y segregación en la distribución del ingreso en el Perú: trayectorias desiguales
Javier Escobal y Carmen Ponce
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Foreign Banks, Corporate Strategy and Financial Stability: Lessons from the River Plate
Michael Brei  and Carlos Winograd 
Access Paper - Sep. 10, 2012

Distance and Political Boundaries: Estimating Border Effects under Inequality Constraints
Fernando Borraz, Alberto Cavallo, Roberto Rigobon and Leandro Zipitría 
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Do Financial and Institutional Variables Enhance the Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean? A Panel Cointegration Analysis
Miguel Ramirez
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El Impacto de un Programa Social sobre la Informalidad Laboral: El Caso de la AUH en Argentina
Santiago Garganta  and Leonardo Gasparini 
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Heterogeneity of Total Factor Productivity Across Latin American Countries : Evidence from Manufacturing Firms
Daniel Kapp  and Alan Sánchez
Access Paper - Sep. 8, 2012

Pro-poor Growth in Andean Countries
Abdelkrim Araar
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Ethnic Inequality
Alberto Alesina , Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou 
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Un modelo “cuasi-Solow” y el caso de la tasa de ahorro endógena
Carlos Esteban Posada P.
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Anemia and Child Education: The Case of Colombia 
Gaviria, Alejandro; Hoyos, Alejandro 
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The Political Economy of Distribution and Growth in Chile
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Access Paper - Sep. 7, 2012

Fiscal Policy for Commodity Exporting Countries: Chile's Experience
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
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Female Labor Force Participation and Informal Care of Adults: Evidence for a middle-income country
David Bravo and Esteban Puentes
Access Paper - Sep. 6, 2012

Develando econométricamente los impactos del Transantiago en la contaminación atmosférica de Santiago de Chile
Eugenio Figueroa, Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Pablo Jorquera and Felipe Labrín
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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: A New Approach
Nora Lustig and Sean Higgins 
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Changes in wage structure in Mexico going beyond the mean: An analysis of differences in distribution, 1987-2008
Claudia Tello, Raul Ramos, Manuel Artís
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Inequality of Opportunities and Long Term Earnings Measures: Evidence for Chile
Dante Contreras, Osvaldo Larrañaga, Esteban Puentes and Tomás Rau
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Heuristics and Biases in Public Finance and Tax Law: Outline of a Behavioral Approach in Brazil 
Andre Castro Carvalo
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How Sustainable are Latin American Fiscal Deficits: A Panel Data Approach
Jacobo Campo Robledo and Luis Fernando Melo Velandia
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Flujos de capital y política fiscal en las economías emergentes de América Latina
Ignacio Lozano, Ligia Alba Melo B. and Jorge Enrique Ramos F.
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Cambios en la informalidad en el mercado de trabajo argentino, 2004 – 2010
Groisman, Fernando, Vergara, Albano and Calero, Analía Verónica
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Spatial division of labor in Chile 1992-2002
Miguel Atienza , Marcelo Lufin and Mauricio Sarrias
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Análisis de la evolución y caracterización de la demanda de educación universitaria en Colombia
Jhon James Mora and Cecilia Albert Verdú
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Monetary Policy in Chile: Institutions, Objectives, and Instruments
Francisco Rosende and Matías Tapia 
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