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13091: The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador

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

13084: The Impact of Tropical Storms on International Trade: Evidence from Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Preeya Mohan

13080: How families matter for understanding economic inequality

Cezar Santos and Michèle Tertilt

13078: Farm Size and Income Distribution of Latin American Agriculture New Perspectives on an Old Issue

Margarita Gáfaro, Ana Ibáñez, Daniel Sánchez-Ordoñez and María Camila Ortiz

13055: Trusting Covid-19 recommendations: The role of experts, markets and governments

Facundo Albornoz, Guillermo Cruces and María Lombardi

13053: An Econometric Cost-Benefit Analysis of Argentina’s Youth Training Program

Victor Elias, Fernanda Ruiz Núñez, Ricardo Cossa and David Bravo

13052: Do Behavioral Drivers Matter for Healthcare Decision-making in Times of Crisis?: A study of Low-Income Women in El Salvador During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pedro Bernal, Giuliana Daga, Lajos Kossuth and Florencia Lopez Boo

13049: Constraints or Opportunities?: Labor Informality and Public Investment in Shaping Debt Limits

Juan Camilo Méndez-Vizcaíno and Nicolás Moreno-Arias

13047: The Impact of the One-Stop Shop for Business Registration in the Dominican Republic

Vida Bobicì, Lucia Delgado, María Paula Gerardino, Michael Hennessey and José Martinez-Carrasco

13044: Monopsony Power and Labor Income Inequality in Mexico

Chiara Cazzuffi, Mariana Pereira-López, Irving Rosales and Isidro Soloaga

13038: Estimating the Long-term Effects of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program Using Satellite Imagery

Lina Salazar, Marcos Agurto Adrianzen and Luis Alvarez

13034: Conditional Cash Transfers, Debit Cards and Financial Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

Guillermo Cruces

13021: Climate-Related Trade Measures: Assessing Impacts for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

Aaron Cosbey and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

13018: Surviving Competition: Neighborhood Shops vs. Convenience Chains

Miguel Talamas Marcos

13016: Can Online Platforms Promote Women-Led Exporting Firms?

Jennifer Poole and Christian Volpe Martincus

13010: Humans versus Chatbots: Scaling-up behavioral interventions to reduce teacher shortages

Nicolás Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Analia Jaimovich and Graciela Pérez-Nuñez

13008: Child Labor, Rainfall Shocks, and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Rural Households

Carolina Bernal and Razvan Vlaicu

12991: Reducing Misinformation: The Role of Confirmation Frames in Fact-Checking Interventions

Natalia Aruguete, Flavia Batista, Ernesto Calvo, Matías Guizzo Altube, Carlos Scartascini and Tiago Ventura

12985: A Personalized VAT with Capital Transfers: A Reform to Protect Low-Income Households in Mexico

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarda and Gabriel Marin

12983: Willing but Unable to Pay?: The Role of Gender in Tax Compliance

Andrea López-Luzuriaga and Carlos Scartascini

12982: Can a Pay-for- Performance Program Help the Vulnerable find Jobs during a Pandemic?: Experimental Evidence from Empleate in Colombia

Maria Fernanda Gómez and Carolina González-Velosa

12978: Debt Erosion: Asymmetric Response to Demand and Supply Shocks

Oscar Valencia, Juliana Gamboa-Arbeláez and Gustavo Sánchez

12977: Measuring Labor Market Discrimination against LGTBQ+ in the Case of Ecuador: A Field Experiment

Hugo Hernández, Gabriel Quiroz, Omar Zambrano and Wladimir Zanoni

12969: Policiamiento en puntos calientes en cuatro ciudades de Argentina: evaluación de impacto y proceso

Spencer Chainey, Patricio Estévez-Soto, Gastón Pezzuchi and Rodrigo Serrano

12968: Residential Electricity Consumption and Adaptation to Climate Change by Colombian Households

Shaun McRae

12965: External Crisis Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean

Eduardo A. Cavallo and Eduardo Fernández-Arias

12962: Automatic Product Classification in International Trade: Machine Learning and Large Language Models

Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Franco Riottini Depetris and Christian Volpe Martincus

12954: Wildfires and Human Health: Evidence from 15 Wildfire Seasons in Chile

Rubí Arrizaga, Damian Clarke, Pedro P. Cubillos and Cristóbal Ruiz-Tagle V.

12943: Estimating and mapping natural hazards and risk reduction provided by coastal ecosystems

Katie Arkema, Allison Bailey, Valeria Chávez Cerón, Roberto Guerrero Compeán, Pelayo Menéndez Fernandez, Borja Reguero, Mary Ruckelshaus and Jessica Silver

12941: Modeling Tropical Cyclone Risk While Accounting for Climate Change and Natural Infrastructure in the Caribbean

Katie Arkema, Allison Bailey, Roberto Guerrero Compeán, Pelayo Menéndez Fernandez and Borja Reguero

12940: Origins of Latin American Inequality

Francisco Eslava and Felipe Valencia Caicedo

12934: Who Benefits from Tuition-Free, Top-Quality Universities?: Evidence from Brazil

Suzanne Duryea, Rafael P. Ribas, Breno Sampaio, Gustavo R. Sampaio and Giuseppe Trevisan

12931: Minimum Wage Policy and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

T. H. Gindling and Lucas Ronconi

12930: Compliance and Accountability: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Argentina

Krzysztof Krakowski and Lucas Ronconi

12929: Globalization and Inequality in Latin America

Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Brian K. Kovak

12926: Migración forzada y finanzas públicas locales: evidencia de los municipios en Colombia

Salvador Traettino

12925: Re-thinking Social Protection: From Poverty Alleviation to Building Resilience in Middle-Income Households

Diego A. Vera-Cossio, Bridget Hoffmann, Camilo Pecha, Jorge Gallego, Marco Stampini, David Vargas, María Paula Medina and Esteban Álvarez

12922: Access to Credit and the Expansion of Broadband Internet in Peru

Antonio Cusato, José Luis Castillo and Invest Idb

12912: Detecting Envelope Wages with E-billing Information

Mónica Calijuri, Carola Pessino, Andrea López-Luzuriaga, Simeon Schächtele, Ubaldo González and Carla Chamorro

12906: Wealth Inequality in Latin America

Rafael Carranza, Mauricio De Rosa and Ignacio Flores

12884: Report Cards: Parental Preferences, Information and School Choice in Haiti

Michael Borger, Gregory Elacqua, Isabel Jacas, Christopher Neilson and Anne Sofie Westh Olsen

12877: Economic Impacts of a Supporting Scheme on Domestic Energy Consumption in Bolivia: A Quasi-experimental Approach

Ricardo Nogales, Andrea Alcaraz, David Lopez, Pauline Ravillard, Sergio Ballón and Michelle Carvalho Metanias Hallack

12862: Access to Language Training and the Local Integration of Refugees

Mette Foged and Cynthia van der Werf

12850: Increasing the Use of Telemedicine: A Field Experiment

María P. González and Carlos Scartascini

12841: Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico

Cecilia Berlanga, Emma Näslund-Hadley, Enrique Fernández García and Juan Manuel Hernández Agramonte

12832: When Measure Matters: Coresidence Bias and Integenerational Mobility Revisited

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra and Mariel Siravegna

12829: Socioemotional Learning in Early Childhood Education: Experimental Evidence from the Think Equal Program’s Implementation in Colombia

María Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Díaz, Emma Näslund-Hadley, Margarita Cabra and Laura Felizia Vélez Medina

12826: The Effect of the Pandemic on the Transition to Tertiary Education in Chile: A Focus on Students with Disabilities

M. Ignacia Contreras, Suzanne Duryea and Claudia Martínez

12823: Mobility Restrictions and Automation in the Developing World: Evidence from Peru's Labor Market

Miguel Benitez-Rueda, Nicolás Domínguez and Eric Parrado

12819: What Job Would You Apply to?: Findings on the Impact of Language on Job Searches

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

12816: Overconfidence and Gun Preferences: How Behavioral Biases Affect Your Safety

Fernando G. Cafferata, Patricio Domínguez and Carlos Scartascini

12813: Climate Policies, Labor Markets, and Macroeconomic Outcomes in Emerging Economies

Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro and Victoria Nuguer

12812: Banks’ Physical Footprint and Financial Technology Adoption

Lucas A. Mariani, José Renato Haas Ornelas and Bernardo Ricca

12798: Two-Sided Market Power in Firm-to-Firm Trade

Vanessa Alviarez, Michele Fioretti, Ken Kikkawa and Monica Morlacco

12782: The Effectiveness of Management Training Programs: A Meta-Analytic Review

Matías Busso, Kyunglin Park and Nicolás Irazoque

12780: Debt and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter? Evidence from Dynamic Parametric and Static Non-parametric Approaches

Gerardo Reyes-Tagle and Jorge E. Muñoz-Ayala

12779: Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America

Martín Ardanaz, Evelyne Hübscher, Philip Keefer and Thomas Sattler

12769: The Impact of a Financial Inclusion Program on Household’s Payment Choice, Savings, and Credit

Néstor Gandelman, Rodrigo Lluberas, Daniel Misail and Invest Idb

12754: More Information, Lower Price? Access Market-based Reference Prices and Gains in Public Procurement Efficiency

José Martinez-Carrasco, Otavio ConceiçaÞo and Ana Lúcia Dezolt

12739: COVID-19, Firm Innovation Strategy, and Production Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Caribbean Firms

Preeya Mohan and Eric Strobl

12735: Gender Contribution to the Innovation-Productivity Relationship in the Wake of COVID-19: Evidence for the Caribbean

Ezequiel Tacsir and Mariano Pereira

12720: Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates

Matías Busso, Sebastián Montaño and Juan S. Muñoz-Morales

12716: Import Processing and Trade Costs

Jerónimo Carballo, Alejandro Graziano, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus

12710: The Causal Impact of Covid-19 Government-backed Loans on MSMEs Liquidity and Earnings

Maikol Cerda, Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, Ana María Montoya, Eric Parrado and Raimundo Undurraga

12708: Discrimination Against Gay and Transgender People in Latin America: A Correspondence Study in the Rental Housing Market

Nicolás Abbate, Inés Berniell, Joaquín Coleff, Luis Laguinge, Mariana Marchionni, Julian Pedrazzi, Margarita Machelett and Maria Florencia Pinto

12707: Challenges for Measuring the LGBT+ Population and Homophobia in Mexico

Emilio Gutiérrez Fernández and Adrian Rubli

12705: The Impact of Expanding Worker Rights to Informal Workers Evidence from Child Labor Legislation

Leah Lakdawala, Diana Martínez Heredia and Diego A. Vera-Cossio

12702: Teacher transfers and the disruption of Teacher Staffing in the City of Sao Paulo

Gregory Elacqua and Leonardo Rosa

12701: Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations

JoaÞo Ayres, Gaston Navarro, Juan Pablo Nicolini and Pedro Teles

12699: Shock-responsive social protection and climate shocks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from COVID-19

Cecilia Costella, Ana Diez, Rodolfo Beazley and Mariana Alfonso

12698: Is there discrimination against children of same-sex households? Evidence from an experimental study in Colombia

Natalia Cantet, Brian Feld and Mónica Hernández

12696: Spillover Effects of Financial Education: The Impact of School-Based Programs on Parents

Veronica Frisancho

12691: Fiscal Rules: Challenges and Reform Opportunities for Emerging Markets

Martín Ardanaz, Eduardo A. Cavallo and Alejandro Izquierdo

12685: Multinationals and Structural Transformation

Vanessa Alviarez, Cheng Chen, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Liliana Varela, Kei-Mu Yi and Hongyong Zhang

12683: Promover la recuperación y la resiliencia de la población desplazada: lecciones de Colombia

Ana Ibáñez, Andrés Moya and Andrea Velásquez

12682: Fiscal Rules and Optimal Currency Composition of Sovereign Debt in Emerging Economies

Oscar Valencia, Luis Alberto Rodriguez and Juan Pablo Siachoque

12681: Ability Grouping and Student Performance: Experimental Evidence from Middle Schools in Mexico

Matías Busso and Veronica Frisancho

12680: The Effects of the Energy Transition on Power Sector Employment in Latin America

David Lopez, Mariana Weiss, José Francisco Pessanha, Karla Arias, Livia Gouvea and Michelle Carvalho Metanias Hallack

12678: Covid-19 Pandemic and SMEs' Performance in Latin America

Maikol Cerda, David Cervantes, Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, Ana María Montoya, Eric Parrado, Carlos Serrano, Raimundo Undurraga and Patricia Yanez-Pagans

12677: How Accurately are Household Surveys Measuring the Size and Inequalities for the LGBT Population in Bogota, Colombia? Evidence from a List Experiment

Andrés Ham, Angela Guarin and Juanita Ruiz

12676: Telenovelas and Attitudes toward the LGBTIQ Community in Latin America

Selim Gulesci, María Lombardi and Alejandra Ramos

12668: Long-term Effects of Weather-induced Migration on Urban Labor and Housing Markets

Matías Busso and Juan Pablo Chauvin

12658: Short- and Long-Run Labor Market Adjustment to Import Competition

Juan S. Blyde, Matías Busso, Kyunglin Park and Dario Romero

12647: Remote Tutoring with Low-tech Means to Accelerate Learning: Evidence for El Salvador

Pablo Zoido, Iván Flores, Felipe Hevia, Miguel Székely and Eleno Castro

12643: The Cyclicality of Official Bilateral Lending: Which Cycle do Flows Follow?

Arturo Galindo, Leopoldo Avellán, Tomás Gómez and Giulia Lotti

12642: Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election

Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

12639: Fiscal Rules and Economic Cycles: Quality (Always) Matters

Leandro Gaston Andrian, Oscar Valencia, Jorge Hirs-Garzon and Ivan Leonardo Urrea Rios

12638: Does an Education Major Matter for Teaching?: The Relationship between Teachers Degree and Student Achievement

Marcelo Drouet Arias, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta and Leonardo Rosa

12633: Benefits of Titling Indigenous Communities in the Peruvian Amazon: A Stated Preference Approach

Allen Blackman, Sahan Dissanayake, Adan Martinez Cruz, Leonardo Corral and Maja Schling

12625: The Welfare Effects of including Household Preferences in School Assignment Systems: Evidence from Ecuador

Gregory Elacqua, Isabel Jacas, Thomas Krussig, Carolina Méndez and Christopher Neilson

12622: Can Information on School Attributes and Placement Probabilities Direct Search and Choice? Evidence from Choice Platforms in Ecuador and Peru

Felipe Arteaga, Gregory Elacqua, Thomas Krussig, Carolina Méndez and Christopher Neilson

12607: Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries

Martín Ardanaz, Evelyne Hübscher, Philip Keefer and Thomas Sattler

12591: Policy Support and Firm Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Colombia

Arturo Galindo and Jorge Tovar

12578: The Reorganization of Global Value Chains: What’s in it for Latin America and the Caribbean? Technical Appendix

Mauricio Moreira, Juan S. Blyde, Christian Volpe Martincus, Marcelo Dolabella and Ignacio Marra de Artiñano

12573: Does Gender and Sexual Diversity Lead to Greater Conflict in the School?

Veronica Frisancho, Alejandro Herrera and Eduardo Nakasone

12572: Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations

Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

12568: Labor Market Gender Gaps in the Time of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ivonne Acevedo, Francesca Castellani, Giulia Lotti and Miguel Székely

12557: Cluster Initiatives and Economic Resilience: Evidence from a Technology Cluster in Argentina

Bernardo Díaz de Astarloa and Ezequiel Tacsir

12556: The Reorganization of Global Value Chains: What’s in it for Latin America and the Caribbean?

Mauricio Moreira, Juan S. Blyde, Christian Volpe Martincus, Marcelo Dolabella and Ignacio Marra de Artiñano

12539: The Risk of External Financial Crisis

Eduardo A. Cavallo and Eduardo Fernández-Arias