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6081: An Economic Analysis of Unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago

Andrew S. Downes

6080: Does Latin American and Caribbean Unemployment Depend on Asian Labor Standards?

Patrick Belser

6079: Decentralization and Recentralization: Lessons from the Social Sectors in Mexico and Nicaragua

Alec Ian Gershberg and Michael Jacobs

6078: How Much do Teachers Earn?

Claudia Piras and William D. Savedoff

6077: Macro Policy and Employment Problems in Latin America

Eduardo Lora and Mauricio Olivera

6076: Institutional Arrangements and Fiscal Performance: The Latin American Experience

Ernesto Stein, Ernesto Talvi and Alejandro Grisanti

6075: Financial Liberalization and Policy Challenges

Michael Dooley

6074: Regional Financial Market Integration: Learning from the European Experience

Benn Steil

6073: Entry and Exit of Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Public Policy Concerns and a Proposed Solution

George J. Benston

6072: Credit Union Policies and Performances in Latin America

Glenn D. Westley and Sherrill Shaffer

6071: North-South Customs Unions and International Capital Mobility

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Mark Spiegel

6069: Why Low Inequality Spurs Growth: Savings and Investment by the Poor

Nancy Birdsall, Thomas C. Pinckney and Richard H. Sabot

6068: Building Stability in Latin American Financial Markets

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Steven R. Weisbrod

6067: The Roots of Banking Crises: The Macroeconomic Context

Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann

6066: Dealing with Negative Oil Shocks: The Venezuelan Experience in the Eighties

Ricardo Hausmann

6065: Capital Requirements for Latin American Banks in Relation to their Market Risks: The Relevance of the Basle 1996 Amendment to Latin America

Andrew Powell and Veronica Balzarotti

6064: Trade and Employment: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Gustavo Márquez and Carmen Pages

6051: The Impact of Public Expenditures in Education, Health, and Infrastructure on Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Peru

Jorge A. Mesones, Jorge R. Peschiera Cassinelli and Jorge F. Baca Campodónico

4785: Better Luck Next Time: Learning through Retaking

Veronica Frisancho, Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin and Cemile Yavas

4782: Long-Term Effect of Climate Change on Health: Evidence from Heat Waves in Mexico

Jorge Agüero

4779: Knowledge Spillovers of Innovation Policy through Labor Mobility: An Impact Evaluation of the FONTAR Program in Argentina

Rodolfo Stucchi, Sofía Rojo, Alessandro Maffioli and Victoria Castillo

4776: The Impact of Agricultural Extension for Improved Management Practices: An Evaluation of the Uruguayan Livestock Program

Conner Mullally and Alessandro Maffioli

4774: Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries

Renos Vakis, Christina Paxson, Daniela Marshall, Karen Macours, Florencia Lopez Boo, David Bravo, Raquel Bernal, Rodrigo Azuero, M. Caridad Araujo, Jere Behrman and Norbert Schady

4771: Industrial Clusters and Economic Performance in Brazil

Jose Claudio Pires, Túlio Cravo, Simon Lodato and Caio Piza

4766: On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira

4765: The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students' Digital Skills in Peru

Germán Bet, Julian Cristia and Pablo Ibarraran

4762: Re-estimating the Gender Gap in Colombian Academic Performance

Juan Munoz-Morales

4758: Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? Evidence from Peru

Pablo Garofalo, Alejo Czerwonko and Julian Cristia

4756: The Effects of Air Pollution on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Chile

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio A. Vela

4702: Benchmarking Container Port Technical Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean

Javier Morales Sarriera, Tomas Serebrisky, Gonzalo Araya, Cecilia Briceño-Garmendia and Jordan Schwartz

4699: Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee

Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Álvarez and Ricardo Monge-González

4698: Tax Compliance and Enforcement in the Pampas: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Lucio Castro and Carlos Scartascini

4693: Tax Reforms in Latin America in an Era of Democracy

Carlos Scartascini

4690: Bank Linkages and International Trade

Galina Hale, Christopher Candelaria, Julian Caballero and Sergey Borisov

4688: Measuring the Political Economy of Tax Lawmaking: A Methodology and Evidence from Argentina

Javier Alvaredo, Alejandro Bonvecchi, Ernesto Calvo, Maximiliano Castillo Carrillo, Elssy Bonilla-Castro and Juan C. Gómez Sabaini

4685: Are Environmentally Related Taxes Effective?

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio A. Vela

4682: Productive Development Policies and Innovation Spillovers through Labor Force Mobility: The Case of the Brazilian Innovation Support System

Alessandro Maffioli and Rodolfo Stucchi

4679: Las consecuencias económicas de la violencia del narcotráfico en México

Gustavo Robles, Gabriela Calderon and Beatriz Magaloni

4677: Preschool Education in Brazil: Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?

Paulo Bastos and Odd Rune Straume

4674: Institutions for Effective Business-Government Collaboration: Micro Mechanisms and Macro Politics in Latin America

Ben Ross Schneider

4671: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?: School Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America

Marina Bassi, Matias Busso and Juan Munoz-Morales

4668: Optimal Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change in Small Environmental Economies

Sebastian Miller, Sebastian Galiani and Omar Chisari

4665: Intensity-Based Permit Quotas and the Business Cycle: Does Flexibility Pay Off?

Kwok Ping Tsang, Gregory S. Amacher and Olli-Pekka Kuuselaa

4663: Politics Under the Weather: Droughts, Parties and Electoral Outcomes

Sebastian Miller and Paulo Bastos

4660: Does Birth Underregistration Reduce Childhood Immunization?: Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Rene Osorio Rivas, Steve Brito and Ana Corbacho

4656: Terms of Trade and Fiscal Sustainability when the Sovereign Exploits a Natural Resource

Marcelo P. Oviedo and Leandro Andrian

4653: Paving the Road to Export: Assessing the Trade Impacts of Road Quality

Juan Blyde

4650: Shaky Roads and Trembling Exports: Assessing the Trade Effects of Domestic Infrastructure Using a Natural Experiment

Christian Volpe Martincus and Juan Blyde

4648: Normative Fiscal Policy and Growth: Some Quantitative Implications for the Chilean Economy

Emilio Espino and Martín González Rozada

4647: Risk Management with Thinly Traded Securities: Methodology and Implementation

Gonzalo Cortazar, Diether Beuermann and Alejandro Bernales

4645: Information and Communication Technology, Agricultural Profitability, and Child Labor in Rural Peru

Diether Beuermann

4641: Government Debt and Economic Growth

Cesar Calderon and Rodrigo Fuentes

4638: A Cycle-Adjusted Fiscal Rule for Sustainable and More Equitable Growth in Argentina

Jimena Zúñiga, Marcelo Capello, Inés Butler and Néstor Grión

4635: Why don't All Exporters Benefit from Free Trade Agreements?: Estimating Utilization Costs

Alfie Ulloa and Rodrigo Wagner

4633: Calling Their Bluff: Expressed and Revealed Preferences of Top College Graduates Entering Teaching in Argentina

Alejandro Ganimian, Mariana Alfonso and Ana Santiago

4630: Competencia en el mercado bancario del crédito en Chile

Bernardita Piedrabuena

4629: Are Environmental Taxes Affected by Legislatures' Ideological Positions?

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio A. Vela

4627: Rule-of-Thumb Consumers, Nominal Rigidities and the Design of Interest Rate Rules

Sergio Ocampo

4626: Ideology and Taxation in Latin America

Lorena Caro and Ernesto Stein

4624: Capital Flows: Issues and Policies

Peter Montiel

4622: The Unemployment Subsidy Program in Colombia: An Assessment

Jorge Andrés Tamayo, Jairo Núñez and Carlos Medina

4620: Decentralization and Accountability: The Curse of Local Underdevelopment

Fabiana Machado

4619: Regional Financial Development and Firm Growth in Peru

Cristhian Seminario, Edgar Salgado and Eduardo Moron

4617: Crime, Punishment, and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Colombian Adolescents

David Zarruk, Catherine Rodriguez and Ana Ibáñez

4616: The Impact of the Sense of Security from Crime on Residential Property Values in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas

Rosa M. R. Massena, Kaizô I. BeltraÞo and David M. Vetter

4613: The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil

Marco Manacorda and Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner

4612: Are We All Playing the Same Game?: The Economic Effects of Constitutions Depend on the Degree of Institutionalization

Mariano Tommasi, Carlos Scartascini and German Caruso

4609: Causal Estimates of the Intangible Costs of Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jorge Agüero

4608: The Distance between Perception and Reality in the Social Domains of Life

Eduardo Lora

4606: A New Taxonomy of Sudden Stops: Which Sudden Stops Should Countries Be Most Concerned About?

Pilar Tavella, Mathieu Pedemonte, Andrew Powell and Eduardo Cavallo

4604: The Economic Effects of Constitutions: Do Budget Institutions Make Forms of Government More Alike?

Carlos Scartascini and Martin Ardanaz

4602: Can Institutions Cure Clientelism?: Assessing the Impact of the Australian Ballot in Brazil

Daniel Gingerich

4597: Theory and Evidence on Teacher Policies in Developed and Developing Countries

Emiliana Vegas and Alejandro Ganimian

4594: Energy Intensity: A Decomposition and Counterfactual Exercise for Latin American Countries

Raul Jimenez Mori and Jorge Enrique Mercado Díaz

4593: El impacto de la capacitación sobre la adopción de mejores prácticas administrativas y el desempeño de las MiPyME en Costa Rica

Laura Torrentes-García, Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Álvarez and Ricardo Monge-González

4590: The Organization of Public-Private Cooperation for Productive Development Policies

Jorge Cornick

4588: Intercontinental Evidence on Socioeconomic Status and Early Childhood: Cognitive Skills: Is Latin America Different?

Florencia Lopez Boo

4586: Lecciones a partir de experimentos de formalización empresarial

Sebastian Galiani and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

4584: More Schooling and More Learning?: Effects of a Three-Year Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Nicaragua after 10 Years

Tania Barham, Karen Macours and John Maluccio

4583: Taxation and Economic Growth in Latin America

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Violeta Vulovic

4580: Aggregate Effects of a Universal Social Insurance Fiscal Reform

Arturo Antón-Sarabia and Julio Leal Ordóñez

4559: Is Entrepreneurship a Channel of Social Mobility in Latin America?

Francesca Castellani and Eduardo Lora

4553: Decentralization, Fiscal Effort and Social Progress in Colombia at the Municipal Level, 1994-2009: Why Does National Politics Matter?

Fabio Sanchez Torres and Mónica Pachón

4552: Boys' Cognitive Skill Formation and Physical Growth: Long-term Experimental Evidence on Critical Ages for Early Childhood Interventions

Tania Barham, Karen Macours and John Maluccio

4551: Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality?: Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Carmen Pages

4550: Unemployment Insurance in High Informality Countries

Emilio Espino and Juan Sanchez

4549: The Effect of Firm-Size Dependent Policies on the Economy: The Case of the Repecos Law in Mexico

Claudia Sánchez-Vela and Jorge Valero-Gil

4548: VAT Collection and Social Security Contributions: Is There a Link?

Arturo Antón-Sarabia and Fausto Hernandez-Trillo

4546: Los costos del crimen en Uruguay

Diego Aboal, Jorge Campanella and Bibiana Lanzilotta

4545: Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil

Pablo D'Erasmo

4544: Labor Market Effects of Introducing Unemployment Benefits in an Economy with High Informality

Mariano Bosch and Julen Esteban-Pretel

4542: Unemployement Protection for Informal Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean

Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro and Miguel Sarzosa

4538: The Cyclical Characteristics of Universal Social Insurance

Richard Hemming

4535: Las externalidades de los programas de transferencias condicionadas sobre el crimen: El caso de Familias en Acción en Bogotá

Adriana Camacho and Daniel Mejía

4533: Microcredit Impact Assessment: The Brazilian and Chilean Cases

Patricio Aroca

4531: Methodology for Negotiations in the Area of Financial Services

Roberto Zahler

4530: Inventory of Social Protection and Poverty Reduction Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: A First Approximation

Fabián Repetto and Juan Sanguinetti

4527: The Political Economy of Reform of the Administrative Systems of Public Sector Personnel in Latin America: An Analytical Framework

Blanca Heredia

4525: The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on the Pattern of Trade

Antoni Estevadeordal

4521: Research on Public Management Policy Change in the Latin American Region: Conceptual Framework, Methodological Guide, and Exemplars

Guillermo Cejudo, Francisco Gaetani, Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde and Michael Barzelay