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246: The effect of property division laws on divorce and labor supply: evidence from Spain

Pablo Brassiolo

245: Police reform, training and crime: experimental evidence from colombia's plan cuadrantes

Juan Felipe García, Daniel Mejía and Daniel Ortega

244: Distorsions, resource al location and productivity in Latin America

Nezih Guner and Gustavo Ventura

243: Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: the Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions

Fernando Alvarez-Parra, Luis Brandao-Marques and Manuel Toledo

242: Diferencias en la calidad de la educación e ineficiencia: un análisis basado en el método de frontera estocástica

Fernando Alvarez-Parra

241: Impacto de las políticas de fomento al emprendedorismo: el caso de "Buenos Aires emprende"

Hernán Ruffo, Inés Butler, Gabriela Galassi and Guadalupe González

240: An exploratory study of entrepeneurial ventures in Argentina, their financing and first years' growth

Ricardo Pasquini, Laura Mastroscello, Fernando Valli and Rodrigo Segovia

239: Políticas de fomento al emprendimiento dinámico en América Latina: tendencias y desafíos

Hugo Kantis, Juan Federico and Cecilia Menéndez

238: Decentralisation and Local and Regional Development

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

237: Young businesses, entrepreneurship, and the dynamics of employment and ouput in Colombia´s manufacturing industry

Marcela Eslava and John Haltiwanger

236: Management practices, firm ownership, and productivity in Latin America

Renata Lemos and Daniela Scur

235: Decisiones laborales en América Latina: el caso de los emprendedores

Pablo Gluzmann, David Jaume and Leonardo Gasparini

234: The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: a synthesis of results

Nora Lustig, George Gray Molina, Sean Higgins, Miguel Jaramillo, Wilson Jimenez, Verónica Paz, Claudiney Pereira, Carola Pessino, John Scott and Ernesto Yáñez

233: Can a Mining Windfall Improve Welfare? Evidence from Peru with Municipal Level Data

Adriana Arreaza and Alexandra Reuter

232: Spillovers of health education at school on parents´ physical activity

Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata and Nieves Valdés

231: Patrones de desarrollo en América Latina: ¿convergencia o caída en la trampa del ingreso medio?

Pablo Sanguinetti and Leonardo Villar

230: Reciprocity and willingness to pay taxes: evidence from a survey experiment in Latin America

Daniel Ortega, Lucas Ronconi and Pablo Sanguinetti

229: The political economy of budgeting in Latin America procedures, oversight, and participation

Carlos Pereira and Marcus Melo

228: Working mothers and intergenerational mobility: evidence from sibling schooling gaps in Venezuela

Daniel Ortega

227: Infraestructura y aspectos distributivos en la tarificación de los servicios públicos: ámbito y posibilidades de la tarifa social en la Argentina

Walter Cont, Pedro Hancevic and Fernando Navajas

226: El tamaño del estado y su impacto redistributivo en América Latina

Jose Antonio Ocampo and Jonathan Malagón

225: The economics of tax evasion

Martin Besfamille

224: Tax structure in Latin America: its impact on the real economy and compliance

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Violeta Vulovic

223: Estructura tributaria y evasión impositiva en América Latina

Juan Carlos Gómez-Sabaini and Juan Pablo Jiménez

222: Government performance, taxation and citizen participation: evidence from Brazil

Jeffrey Timmons and Ek Francisco Garfías

221: What do non-renewable natural resource rich countries do with their rents?

Guillermo Perry, Sebastián Bustos and Sui-Jade Ho

220: Workfare and crime: evidence for Argentina

María Laura Alzúa

219: Credit Constraints for Higher Education

Alex Solis

218: Development effects of electrification: evidence from the geologic placement of hydropower plants in Brazil

Molly Lipscomb, Ahmed Mobarak and Tania Bahram

217: Training or technical assistance? A field experiment to learn what works to increase managerial capital for female microentrepeneurs

Martín Valdivia

216: Subsidios al consumo de los servicios públicos: reflexiones a partir del caso colombiano

Marcela Méndez

215: Acceso al financiamiento de la pequeña y mediana empresa en Colombia: retos de política pública

Marcela Meléndez

214: Flexibility matters: do more rigid loan contracts reduce demand for microfinance?

Sarah Pearlman

213: Banking Services Supply and Micro Firm Performance: Evidence from Colombia

Fernando Alvarez-Parra and Marcela Meléndez

212: Access to Financing of SMEs in Argentina

Ricardo Pasquini and Martín De Giovanni

211: Estructura de financiamiento y restricciones financieras de las empresas en Colombia

Maria Arbelaez, Guillermo Perry and Alejandro Becerra

210: Information sharing and access to finance of SMEs: cross country evidence from survey data

Arturo Galindo and Alejandro Micco

209: State formation, tax structures and mineral abundance Chile and Peru, 1850-1930s

Maritza Paredes

208: People or places: the causes of spatial income differences in Brazil

Michael Clemens and Daniel Ortega

207: Oil abundance and growth

Tiago Cavalcanti, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

206: Efectos dinámicos de los precios de las materias primas en las posiciones fiscales de América Latina

Leandro Medina

205: Transportation infrastructure and productivity: evidence from Colombia

Mauricio Cardenas and Carlos Eduardo Sandoval

204: Canon minero y decisiones fiscales subnacionales en el Perú

Pablo Sanguinetti

203: Contracting the Road to Development: Early Impacts of a Rural Roads Program

Martín Valdivia

202: The impact of financial repression on interest rate spreads in Venezuela

Adriana Arreaza, Wegner Huskey and Jesús Zumeta

201: Local economic development. Some cities develop more than others: specialization, human capital and institutions

Michael Storper

200: On the emergence and significance of local economic development strategies

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Sylvia Tijmstra

199: El impacto del petróleo y la minería en el desarrollo regional y local en Colombia

Guillermo Perry and Mauricio Olivera

198: Trade liberalization, economic integration and regional disparities

Gianmarco Ottaviano

197: Servicios locales, infraestructura y transporte: dimensión, escala, redes e instituciones de gobernanza

Germà Bel

196: Inter-jurisdictional coordination in the management of natural resources: evidence from water basin committees in Brazil

Ahmed Mobarak and Molly Lipscomb

195: Improving the education and health of the poor: decentralization and policy reform in Colombia

Jean-Paul Faguet