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14022: Disruption in the Classroom: Experimental evidence from Ecuador

Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Francesca Salvati and Norbert Schady

14020: Fiscal Consolidations in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do Inequality, Informality and Corruption Matter?

JoaÞo Tovar Jalles, Carola Pessino and Ana Cristina Calderón

14017: The Giving Advice Effect: Reducing Teacher Sorting Through Self-Persuasion

Nicolás Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Macarena Kutscher, Carolina Méndez and Sonia Suarez Enciso

14003: Market Power, Industry Concentration and Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Costa Rica

Daniela Córdoba Solano, Felipe Gomez-Trejos and Alberto Vindas Quesada

13993: The Double Gap: Gender and Disability in Parental Employment Outcomes

Claudia Martínez, Raimundo Smith and Marcela Perticará

13990: Combating Vaccine Hesitancy: The Case of HPV Vaccination

Lina M. Díaz, Déborah Martínez Villarreal, Karina Márquez and Carlos Scartascini

13989: The Undercounting of Child-Mother Births

Juan Pablo Chauvin, Rafael RubiaÞo and Miguel Talamas Marcos

13988: Competition and Market Power in the Latin American Banking Sector

Rodrigo Lluberas

13987: Wages, Market Power and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Uruguay

Carlos Casacuberta and Néstor Gandelman

13986: International versus Domestic Shocks and Pass-Through to Country Prices: A Heterogeneous VAR Approach

Vanessa Alviarez, Peter Pedroni, Andrew Powell and Ingri Quevedo Rocha

13985: Breaking Glass Ceilings in Colombia: Strategies and Outcomes in Efforts to Narrow the Gender Gap in Educational Leadership

Gregory Elacqua, Graciela Pérez-Nuñez, Pedro P. Cubillos and Juliana Iglesias Velasco

13980: Fiscal Adjustments and the Asymmetric Effect of Oil Shocks

Oscar Valencia, Juliana Gamboa-Arbeláez and Gustavo Sánchez

13978: The Impact of Multi-acquiring in the Payment System: Evidence from Uruguayan Financial Inclusion Program

Néstor Gandelman, Flavia Roldán and Sofía Viera

13976: Evaluación de una adaptación del Programa HM en Uruguay

Gabriela De Los Santos, Cecilia Erhardt, María Marroig, Iván Flores, Paulina Rasso-Masías, Miguel Székely and Beatriz Abizanda

13975: Massive Regularization for Effective Tax Payment: Evidence from Brazil

Anastasiya Yarygina, Eduardo Iketani, André Martínez and Ernesto Tiburcio

13974: Job Quality, Search, and Optimal Unemployment Contracts

Carlos Da Costa, Lucas Maestri and Cezar Santos

13970: Transparency and Government Reputation: An Experiment on Signaling

Susana Otálvaro-Ramírez, Carlos Scartascini and Jorge M. Streb

13963: Competition Law and Regulations: Productivity Impacts in Latin American Manufacturing Firms

Sara Wong and Marjan Petreski

13961: The Consequences of Non-Tariff Trade Barriers: Theory and Evidence from Import Licenses in Argentina

Leticia Juarez, Federico Bernini and Ezequiel García-Lembergman

13959: The exchange rate passthrough to domestic prices, new evidence from Colombia

Cristhian Larrahondo, Augusto Chávez, Laura Giles Álvarez and Leandro Andrian

13957: An Examination of Numerical Portability in Mobile Communication in Uruguay

Néstor Gandelman, Flavia Roldán and Sofía Viera

13950: Impact of Monetary Incentives on Teacher Decisions to Leave and Choose Schools: Evidence from a Policy Reform in Sao Paulo

Gregory Elacqua, Mateus Rodrigues and Leonardo Rosa

13944: Employment dynamics during COVID-19 in Uruguay

Verónica Amarante, Estefanía Galván and Mijail Yapor

13943: Droughts and Domestic Violence: Measuring the Gender-Climate Nexus

Sandra Aguilar-Gomez and Andrea Salazar-Díaz

13941: Assessing the Role of Tax-benefit Systems in Reducing the Gender Income Gap in Latin America

María Cecilia Deza, Mariana Dondo, H. Xavier Jara, David Arturo Rodríguez Guerrero and Javier Torres

13937: Low Pass-Through from Inflation Expectations to Income Growth Expectations: Why People Dislike Inflation

Ina Hajdini, Edward S Knotek, John Leer, Mathieu Pedemonte, Robert Rich and Raphael Schoenle

13889: Unequal Access?: Gender and Sexual Orientation in Ecuador's Rental Market

Wladimir Zanoni, Hugo Hernández, José Gomez and Judith Brito

13865: Transporte y cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe: brechas de conocimiento y prioridades de investigación

Carlos Beltrán, María Eugenia Rivas and Agustina Calatayud

13864: Labor Market Regulation and Informality

Luiz Brotherhood, Daniel Da Mata, Cezar Santos, Nezih Guner and Philipp Kircher

13836: Shifting Perceptions in School Choice: The Impact of Presenting High-quality Schools first in Recifes Centralized Admission System

Gregory Elacqua, Macarena Kutscher, Mateus Rodrigues and Danielle Nascimento

13833: Competition and Distance to the Technological Frontier as Determinants of Innovation: A Multilevel Analysis for Latin America

Ezequiel Tacsir, Mariano Pereira, Federico Favata and Julian Leone

13830: Social Pensions and Intimate Partner Violence against Older Women

Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Giulia La Mattina and Han Ye

13828: Water Expenditure, Service Quality and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

María Pérez Urdiales and Carolina Tojal Ramos Dos Santos

13827: Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jillie Chang, David Kirkham Evans and Carolina Rivas Herrera

13821: Becoming a Teacher: Experimental Evidence from an Information Intervention

Matías Busso, Mariana Alfonso, Hugo Ñopo, Antonella Maria Rivera Bianchi and Triana Yentzen

13819: Access to Loans and Local Development: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Renata Motta Café

13810: The Effect of Extreme Heat on Economic Growth: Evidence from Latin America

Bridget Hoffmann, Juliana Dueñas and Alejandra Goytia

13804: The Migrant Penalty in Latin America: Experimental Evidence from Job Recruiters

Wladimir Zanoni and Raissa Fabregas

13791: Using Subsidies to Enhance Access to Maternal and Newborn Health Care in Remote Villages

Antonella Bancalari, Pedro Bernal, María Fernanda García, Pablo Ibarrarán, Emmanuelle Sánchez-Monin and Paola Zúñiga Brenes

13787: The Expectations of Others

Ezequiel García-Lembergman, Ina Hajdini, John Leer, Mathieu Pedemonte and Raphael Schoenle

13786: Laptops in the Long-Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru

Santiago Cueto, Diether Beuermann, Julian P. Cristia, Ofer Malamud and Francisco Pardo

13775: General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina

Philip Keefer, Benjamin Roseth and Julieth Santamaria

13764: Friends or Foes? The Impact of Voluntary Sustainability Standards on Agricultural Exports of Developing Countries

Marcelo Dolabella and Mario Saeteros

13761: The Causal Effects of Expected Depreciations

Martha Elena Delgado, Juan David Herreño, Marc Hofstetter and Mathieu Pedemonte

13759: Building Up Local Productivity: Infrastructure and Firm Dynamics in Mexico

Matías Busso and Oscar Fentanes

13758: The Effects of Interest Rate Increases on Consumers’ Inflation Expectations: The Roles of Informedness and Compliance

Edward Knotek, James Mitchell, Mathieu Pedemonte and Taylor Shiroff

13754: Nudging Self-employed Women to Contribute to Social Security

Lorena Heller, Rodrigo López and Ricardo Nogales

13733: Direct Water Requirement Patterns in Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica: A Structural Decomposition Analysis

Giovanna Naspolini, Jesse Madden Libra, Santiago Cunial and María Pérez Urdiales

13725: Surges in the Shadows: Stock-Flow Adjustments and Public Debt Spikes

Leandro Andrian, Cesar Rodriguez and Oscar Valencia

13705: Exploring Gender Discrimination: A Multi-Trial Field Experiment in Urban Ecuador

Wladimir Zanoni, Suzanne Duryea and Jorge Paredes

13701: Are Long Hospitalizations Substituting Primary and Long-term Care?: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico

Natalia Aranco, Sebastian Bauhoff, Natalie Vanessa Schwarz and Marco Stampini

13696: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Which Jobs Will AI Replace After All?: A New Index of Occupational Exposure

Miguel Benítez and Eric Parrado

13681: Enforcement Spillovers under Different Networks: The Case of Quotas for Persons with Disabilities in Brazil

Samuel Berlinski and Jessica Gagete-Miranda

13674: Gender and racial differences in the earnings penalty of working from home before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Alexandre Gori Maia and Yao Lu

13659: Estimating the Economic Impact of Governance in Disaster Risk Management: Theory and Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Roberto Guerrero Compeán, Eduardo Zegarra Méndez and Sergio Lacambra Ayuso

13645: Local Banking Supply and Private Firm Activity: Evidence from Branch Closures

Francis Haoyu Fang and Razvan Vlaicu

13626: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy: Evidence from a Vignette Experiment in Central America

Santiago Perez-Vincent and David Puebla

13623: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra

13610: Market Power in Latin America in Worldwide Perspective: An Empirical Exploration

Rodrigo Heresi

13603: Leveraging Data to Improve Tax Compliance for Micro and Small Firms: Evidence from Brazil

Renata Motta Café, Anastasiya Yarygina and Lisseth Escalante

13582: Irrational Bunching? Tax Regimes, Brackets, and Taxpayer Behaviors

Wladimir Zanoni, Paul A. Carrillo Maldonado, Juan Pantano and Nicolás Chuquimarca

13576: Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection

Lenin Balza, Nicolás Gómez Parra, Jorge Cuartas and Tomas Serebrisky

13568: Monitoring the Governance of State-Owned Enterprises: Assessing the Impact of Brazilian Corporate Governance Reforms

Daphne Coelho, Thomaz Teodorovicz, André Martínez Fritscher, Renata Motta Café, Sergio Lazzarini and Jorge Norio Rezende Ikawa

13565: Does Reluctance to Share Personal Data Reduce Citizen Demand for Personalized Services? Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Florencia Aguirre De Mora, Benjamin Roseth and Julieth Santamaria

13558: Consumers and Firms in International Trade

Christian Volpe Martincus, Monika Sztajerowska and Mariana Belén Santi

13555: Unraveling the Paradox of Anticorruption Messaging: Experimental Evidence from a Tax Administration Reform

Nicolás Ajzenman, Martín Ardanaz, Guillermo Cruces, Germán Feierherd and Ignacio Lunghi

13546: Inequality Persistence and Policymaking Constraints: Explaining Regional Data Patterns

Razvan Vlaicu

13537: Environmental Damage News and Stock Returns: Evidence from Latin America

Eduardo Cavallo, Ana Cepeda and Ugo Panizza

13498: Streaking to Success: The Effects of Highlighting Streaks on Student Effort and Achievement

Julian P. Cristia, Santiago Cueto, Ofer Malamud and Raphaëlle Aulagnon

13497: Local Education Spending and Migration: Evidence from a Large Redistribution Program

Juan Chauvin

13484: Can Conditional Cash Transfers Alter the Effectiveness of Other Human Capital Development Policies?

Diether Beuermann, Andrea Ramos Bonilla and Marco Stampini

13481: Weak Parties and the Inequality Trap in Latin America

Noam Lupu

13480: Firms and Inequality in Latin America

Marcela Eslava, Marcela Meléndez, Gabriel Ulyssea, Nicolas Urdaneta and Ignacio Flores

13478: Climate Change and Sovereign Risk: A Regional Analysis for the Caribbean

Matthew Agarwala, Matt Burke, Jennifer Doherty-Bigara, Patrycja Klusak and Kamiar Mohaddes

13476: Debiasing Policymakers: The Role of Behavioral Economics Training

Ana María Rojas Méndez and Carlos Scartascini

13475: Gender-Based Research and Interviewer Effects: Evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean

Matías Guizzo Altube and Carlos Scartascini

13473: Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets

Martín Ardanaz, Evelyne Hübscher, Philip Keefer and Thomas Sattler

13461: The Central Role of Social Dynamics in Nudging Social Norms for Collective Health

Déborah Martínez Villarreal, Ana María Rojas Méndez, Carlos Scartascini and Alberto Simpser

13460: Measuring Racial Bias in Employment Services in Colombia

Suzanne Duryea, Jaime Millán-Quijano, Judith Morrison and Yanira Ovideo Gil

13452: The Impact of the Creation of a Sovereign ESG Reference Yield Curve on Corporate ESG Bonds Issuances from Latin American and Caribbean

Daniel Cunha, Giovana Craveiro and Marina Rossi

13451: The Labor Market Power of Exporting Firms: Evidence from Latin America

Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Nicolás de Roux and Michele Di Maio

13448: When Emotion Regulation Matters: The Efficacy of Socio-Emotional Learning to Address School-Based Violence in Central America

Lelys Dinarte, Pablo Egaña del Sol, Claudia Martínez A. and Cindy Jacqueline Rojas Alvarado

13447: Asymmetric Sovereign Risk: Implications for Climate Change Preparation

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Jorge Uribe and Oscar Valencia

13444: Minimum Wage, Business Dynamism, and the Life Cycle of Firms

André Victor Doherty Luduvice, Tomas Martinez and Alexandre Sollaci

13439: Gender Disparities in Valuing Remote and Hybrid Work in Latin America

Ana Diaz Escobar, Luz Magdalena Salas Bahamón, Claudia Piras and Agustina Suaya

13434: Barriers to Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence on Grading Bias in Ecuadorian High Schools

Marcos Rangel, Luana Marotta, Cynthia van der Werf, Suzanne Duryea, Marcelo Drouet Arias and Lucina Rodríguez Guillén

13433: An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure: Basic Health Care and Efficiency in Health Systems

Antonella Bancalari, Pedro Bernal, Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Martinez and María Deni Sánchez

13432: Emerging Markets Bond Index Performance and Sovereign Default: The Case of Ecuador

Wladimir Zanoni, Emily Díaz, Jorge Paredes, Leandro Andrian and Juan Lorenzo Maldonado

13410: The Interaction of Economic and Political Inequality in Latin America

Leopoldo Fergusson, James Robinson and Santiago Torres

13409: Taxation when Markets are not Competitive: Evidence from a Loan Tax

Felipe Brugués and Rebeca De Simone

13398: Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile with Foreign Scientists

Rodrigo Ito, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan and Fabiana Visentin

13395: Water Affordability Measures Under Multiple and Non-Exclusive Sources in Latin America and the Caribbean

Roberto Martinez-Espiñeira and María Pérez Urdiales

13393: Sovereign Risk and Economic Complexity

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Jorge Uribe and Oscar Valencia

13379: The Promises of Digital Bank Accounts for Low-income Individuals

Karla Hernández Romero, Diego A. Vera-Cossio, Bridget Hoffmann and Camilo Pecha

13375: Disability Employment Quotas: Effects of Laws and Nudges

Suzanne Duryea, Claudia Martínez A. and Raimundo Smith

13363: Disaster and Political Trust: A Natural Experiment from the 2017 Mexico City Earthquake

Margaret Frost, Sangeun Kim, Carlos Scartascini, Paula Zamora and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

13362: Fighting for the Best, Losing with the Rest: The Perils of Competition in Entrepreneurial Finance

Juan Hernández and Daniel Wills

13361: Medium and Long Run Economic Assimilation of Venezuelan migrants to Peru

Javier Torres, Javier Beverinotti and Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza

13359: Shooting a Moving Target: Choosing Targeting Tools for Social Programs

Diether Beuermann, Bridget Hoffmann, Marco Stampini, David Vargas and Diego A. Vera-Cossio

13358: The Contractionary Effects of Protectionist Trade Policy in a Dollarized Economy

Diego Grijalva, Carlos Uribe-Teran and Ivan Gachet