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1342: Del dato administrativo de firmas al dato estadístico: desafíos a vencer en América Latina

A. Rojo Brizuela

1340: La violencia de género en América Latina: diagnóstico, determinantes y opciones de política

Jorge Agüero

1339: Impact evaluation of innovation policy in Brazil

C. Rocha

1338: A Taxonomy of Colombia’s Informal Labor Market

Cristina Fernandez and Leonardo Villar

1337: The impact of lowering the payroll tax on informality in Colombia

Cristina Fernandez and Leonardo Villar

1280: Evaluación de políticas públicas de apoyo a la innovación sobre la productividad de las empresas manufactureras y de servicios en Colombia

N. Albis, J. Garcia, E. Sánchez and Hernando Bayona-Rodríguez

1279: Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light

R. Ch, D. Martin and Juan Vargas

1259: Motherhood and the missing women in the labor market

I Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata, María Edo and Mariana Marchionni

1245: Money can buy me life. The Effect of a Basic Pension on Mortality: a Regression Discontinuity Design

Enrico Miglino, Nicolas Navarrete H., Gonzalo Navarrete H. and Pablo Navarrete H.

1235: Microdatos para el estudio de la productividad en América Latina

Marcela Eslava, Bryan Hurtado, Nadia Albis, Eugenia Andreasen, Fedora Carbajal, Evangelina Dardati, Sebastián Guiñazu, David Giuliodori, Bernabe Lopez-Martin, Julián Martínez, Alejandro Rodriguez, Lucía Rosich, Flavia Rovira, Erica Sánchez and Carlos Urrutia

1211: Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets

Juan Pablo Atal, Jose Ignacio Cuesta and Morten Sæthre

1187: Predicting Individual Wellbeing Through Test Scores: Evidence from a National Assessment in Mexico

Rafael De Hoyos, Ricardo Estrada and María José Vargas

1161: Who benefits when inertia is reduced? Competition, quality and returns to skill in health care markets

Sebastian Fleitas

1159: Public financial support and innovation in Colombian manufacturing firms

Fernando Barrios, Clemente Forero and Guillermo Perry

1158: Determinants of Slum Formation: The Role of Local Politics and Policies

Guillermo Alves

1153: Capital Controls and Firm Performance: The Effects of the Chilean Encaje

Eugenia Andreasen, Sofia Bauducco and Evangelina Dardati

1152: Measuring Imperfect Competition in Product and Labor Markets. An Empirical Analysis using Firm-level Production Data

Dario Tortarolo and Roman D. Zarate

1151: Programas de Financiamiento Productivo a pymes, acceso al crédito y desempeño de las firmas: Evidencia de Argentina

Inés Butler, Sebastián Guiñazu, David Giuliodori, Julián Martinez Correa, Alejandro Rodriguez and Ezequiel Tacsir

1150: The impact of the minimum wage on the destruction and creation of products

Roberto Alvarez and Lucas Navarro

1139: Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Effciency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile

Damian Clarke, Gustavo Cortés and Diego Vergara

1137: Prácticas laborales como mecanismo para mejorar la empleabilidad de los jóvenes: Lecciones para el caso argentino

Lucila Berniell and Dolores de la Mata

1135: Occupational Choice and Investments in Human Capital in Informal Economies

Lucila Berniell

1134: Starting on the right track? The effects of rst job experience on short and long term labor market outcomes

Lucila Berniell and Dolores de la Mata

1114: Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Rachid Laajaj, Marcela Eslava and Tidiane Kinda

1113: Input-output linkages and sector-specific distortions in the Latin American development problem

Julio Leal

1112: Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage

Inés Berniell and Ricardo Estrada

1109: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment in Brazil

Fernando Saltiel and Sergio Urzua

1108: The Causes and Consequences of the Spatial Organization of Agriculture in Brazil

Heitor S. Pellegrina

1107: Capital Specificity, the Distribution of Marginal Products and Aggregate Productivity

Andrea Lanteri and Pamela Medina

1106: Financial Frictions, Trade, and Misallocation

David Kohn, Fernando Leibovici and Michal Szkup

1105: The Life-cycle Growth of Plants in Colombia: Fundamentals vs. Distortions

Marcela Eslava and John Haltiwangerz

1104: The distortionary effect of size and factor dependent policies: The role of factor substitutability in measuring the impact of a child-care subsidy policy in Chile

Diego Escobar Salce, Jeanne Lafortune, Loris Rubini and José Tessada

1103: Informality and Productivity: The Role of Unemployment Insurance Schemes

Fernando Cirelli, Emilio Espino and Juan Sanchez

1102: Education, signaling and the allocation of entrepreneurial skills

Leandro Arozamena and Hernán Ruffo

1101: Trade Integration in Colombia: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Study with New Exporter Dynamics

George Alessandria and Oscar Avila-Montealegre

1094: What explains output recoveries in developing and emerging market economies after the global financial crisis?

Rolando Avendano and Christian Daude

1087: On the middle 70%. The impact of fiscal policy on the emerging middle class in Latin America using Commitment to Equity

Christian Daude, Nora Lustig, Angel Melguizo and Jose Perea

1083: Rules vs. Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico

Ricardo Estrada

1082: Taking One for the Team: Shocks at Destination and Households' Supply of Migrants

Gustavo Fajardo, Emilio Gutierrez and Horacio Larreguy

1065: The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification

Ricardo Estrada

1051: Characterizing Fuel Choices and Fuelwood Use for Residential Heating and Cooking in Urban Areas of Central-Southern Chile: the Role of Prices, Income, and the Availability of Energy Sources and Technology

Mónica Jaime, Carlos Chavez and Walter Gómez

1050: Public-infraestructure and energy-subsidy policies, energy access by the poor and long-term macroeconomic performance

Enrique Kawamura

1049: Crecimiento verde en el sector energético y sus efectos en el desempeño económico general: desarrollo y aplicación de un modelo híbrido para Colombia

Andrés Camilo Álvarez Espinosa, Javier Darío Burgos Salcedo and Diana Carolina Sierra Cárdenas

1045: Are Taxes Credits Effective in Developing Countries? The Recent Uruguayan Experience

Andrés Rius, Paula Carrasco, Fedora Carbajal, Paola Cazulo and Cecilia Llambí

1028: Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá

Prottoy Akbar and Gilles Duranton

1027: Distributed Photovoltaic Power Generation: Possibilities, Benefits, and Challenges for a Widespread Application in the Mexican Residential Sector

Pedro Hancevic, Héctor Nuñez and Juan Rosellon

1024: Financial Frictions, Occupational Choice and Economic Inequality

Lian Allub and Andres Erosa

1017: Benefits to Elite Schools and the Expected Returns to Education: Evidence from Mexico City

Ricardo Estrada and Jérémie Gignoux

1016: High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities

Nicolás Garrido and Miguel Vargas

1009: Public expenditures and debt at the subnational level: Evidence of fiscal smoothing from Argentina

Martin Besfamille, Nicolás Grosman, Diego Jorrat, Osmel Manzano Mazzali and Pablo Sanguinetti