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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

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 A. 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 Pages 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 Julian 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, Julian 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

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

Margarita Gafaro, 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 Maria 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, Bymayri De León Beato, 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 Lopez-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 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 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 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 Lopez-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

Maria Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Diaz, 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 A.

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

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

Fernando Gabriel Cafferata, Patricio Domínguez and Carlos Scartascini