IDB Publications (Working Papers)

From Inter-American Development Bank
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Felipe Herrera Library ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

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 Tomás 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 A. 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 Pablo 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, Nicolás 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 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 D. Luduvice, Tomas Martinez and Alexandre B. 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 Gaston 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 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-Terán and Ivan Gachet

13353: Exodus to Public School: Parent Preferences for Public Schools in Peru

Gregory Elacqua, Nicolas Figueroa, Andrés Fontaine, Juan Francisco Margitic and Carolina Méndez

13351: Climate Change, Hurricanes, and Sovereign Debt in the Caribbean Basin

Eduardo Cavallo, Santiago Gómez, Ilan Noy and Eric Strobl

13347: An Exchange Rate Policy Rule

Eric Parrado

13346: Trade Openness and Exchange Rate Management

Eric Parrado and Rodrigo Heresi

13340: Navigating Centralized Admissions: The Role of Parental Preferences in School Segregation in Chile

Gregory Elacqua and Macarena Kutscher

13325: Seemingly irrelevant factors and willingness to block polluting investments

Nicolás Ajzenman, Lenin Balza, Hernan Bejarano, Camilo De Los Rios and Nicolás Gómez Parra

13321: The Effects of Tenure Security on Women's Empowerment and Food Security: Evidence From a Land Regularization Program in Ecuador

Maja Schling, Nicolás Pazos, Leonardo Corral and Marisol Inurritegui

13316: Inequality in the Early Years in LAC: A Comparative Study of Size, Persistence, and Policies

Orazio P. Attanasio, Florencia Lopez Boo, Diana Perez-Lopez and Sarah Anne Reynolds

13315: Rollover and Interest-Rate Risks in Self-Fulfilling Debt Models

JoaÞo Ayres and Radek Paluszynski

13312: Nudging the Trendsetters: Increasing Second-dose HPV Vaccination in Bogota, Colombia

Déborah Martínez Villarreal, Lina M. Díaz and Stanislao Maldonado

13306: How Do Investment Promotion Policies Affect Sustainability?

Jeronimo Carballo, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Monika Sztajerowska and Christian Volpe Martincus

13295: Optimal Age-based Policies for Pandemics: An Economic Analysis of Covid-19 and Beyond

Luiz Brotherhood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos and Michèle Tertilt

13290: Debt Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean

Andrew Powell and Ugo Panizza

13286: Gender Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inés Berniell, Raquel Fernández and Sonya Krutikova

13285: Opting Out from Public Services and the Social Contract in Latin America

Ana De la O, Cecilia Rossel and Pilar Manzi

13281: La presión fiscal equivalente en América Latina y el Caribe (1990-2021): actualización y estado de situación en la salida de la pandemia de COVID-19

Dalmiro Morán and Marco Solera

13273: The Value of Clean Water: Evidence from an Environmental Disaster

Rodrigo Barbone Gonzalez, José Renato Haas Ornelas and Thiago Silva

13231: Droughts, Women and Indigenous People in Chile: Assessing the Impacts on Income and Employment

Rodrigo Pérez S., Mayarí Castillo and Chiara Cazzuffi

13219: The Impact of Subsidy Delivery Method on Savings Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Abhijit Banerjee, Claudia Martínez and Esteban Puentes

13200: Nudging the Agents: Does it Reduce Discrimination Against Migrants in the House Rental Market?

Wladimir Zanoni, Lina M. Díaz, Emily Díaz, Jorge Paredes and Paloma Acevedo

13198: Education Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ivonne Acevedo, Raquel Fernández, Carmen Pagés and Miguel Székely

13196: Health Systems and Health Inequalities in Latin America

Antonella Bancalari, Samuel Berlinski, Giancarlo Buitrago, María Fernanda García, Dolores de la Mata and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

13195: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Latin America

Edward E. Telles, Stanley R. Bailey, Shahin Davoudpour and Nicholas C. Freeman

13194: The Political Economy of Redistribution and (in)Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean

Matías Guizzo Altube, Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

13193: Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution, and Poverty Reduction in Latin America

Nora Lustig, Valentina Martinez Pabon and Carola Pessino

13192: Inequality and Market Power in Latin America and the Caribbean

Marcela Eslava, Alvaro Garcia-Marin and Julián Messina

13191: Cash Transfers, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Marco Stampini, Nadin Medellín and Pablo Ibarrarán

13186: Financing Costs and Development

Tiago Cavalcanti, Joseph Kaboski, Bruno Martins and Cezar Santos

13185: Calculating the Redistributive Impact of Pension Systems in LAC

Álvaro Altamirano Montoya, María Laura Oliveri, Mariano Bosch and Waldo Tapia Troncoso

13184: Distributional Effects of Taxation in Latin America

Carola Pessino, Alejandro Rasteletti, Daniel Artana and Nora Lustig

13183: Preferences for Redistribution in Latin America

Matias Busso, Ana Ibáñez, Julián Messina and Juliana Quigua

13166: Does Green Infrastructure Work?: Precipitation, Protected Areas, Floods and Landslides

Juan Robalino, Katrina Mullan, Matías Piaggio and Marisol Guzmán

13164: Estimación de las especies monetarias en circulación para una economía dolarizada: el caso de Ecuador

Eduardo Cabezas, Fabián Navarro, Danny Pérez and Gina Torres

13158: Health Inequalities in Latin American and the Caribbean: Child, Adolescent, Reproductive, Metabolic Syndrome and Mental Health

Antonella Bancalari, Samuel Berlinski, Giancarlo Buitrago, María Fernanda García, Dolores de la Mata and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

13157: Seventy-five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America

Facundo Alvaredo, François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira and Nora Lustig

13156: Labor Market Turnover and Inequality in Latin America

Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho and Renata Narita

13155: Inequality of Opportunity and Intergenerational Persistence in Latin America

Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira and Guido Neidhöfer

13143: Is Energy Planning Consistent with Climate Goals? Assessing Future Emissions from Power Plants in Latin America and the Caribbean

Catalina Marinkovic and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

13141: From Macroeconomic Stability to Welfare: Optimizing Fiscal Rules in Commodity-Dependent Economies

Rodrigo Heresi and Daniela Villacreces Villacis

13133: The Dog That Didn't Bite: Sudden Stops in Emerging and Developing Countries During COVID-19

Eduardo Cavallo, Juan Hernández, María José González Jaramillo and Andrew Powell

13131: Natural Disasters and Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico

Ivonne Acevedo, Francesca Castellani, Carlos Lopez de la Cerda, Giulia Lotti and Miguel Székely

13120: Automation Trends and Labor Markets in Latin America

Irene Brambilla, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone and Leonardo Gasparini

13118: From Discussion to Action: Characterizing Areas of Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean

Sebastián Bustos, Luis Cespedes, John León-Díaz and María Orduz

13110: Why Don't We Follow the Rules? Drivers of Compliance with Fiscal Policy Rules in Emerging Markets

Martín Ardanaz, Carolina Ulloa-Suarez and Oscar Valencia

13097: Family Change in Latin America: Schooling and Labor Market Implications for Children and Women

Albert Esteve, Andrés Castro and Federica Becca

13093: Water and Land Stress in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru under Coupled Climate-Socioeconomic Scenarios

Kuishuang Feng and Xiangjie Chen

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