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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 Chavez 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

4517: Fiscal Indicators in Latin-American Countries

Ricardo Martner

4516: Comparative Analysis of Labor Relations in the Latin American Civil Service: Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru: Working Paper

José Alberto Bonifacio and Graciela Falivene

4515: Analytical Framework for Institutional Assessment of Civil Service Systems

Francisco Longo

4513: Aid for Trade: The Inter-American Development Bank's Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter American Development Bank, Antoni Estevadeordal, Paolo Giordano, Anneke Jessen, Jessica Luna and Kati Suominen

4511: Agricultural Negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Their Links to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

Carlos Pérez del Castillo

4509: Education for Citizenship and Democracy in a Globalized World: A Comparative Perspective

Inter American Development Bank, Viola Espínola, Audrey Osler, Hugh Starkey, Fernando Reimers, Eleonora Villegas Reimers, Cristián Cox, Rosario Jaramillo and Lorenzo Gómez-Morín

4500: Executive Profile for Regional Dialogue on the Environment: The Mesoamerican Sub-Region

Lawrence Pratt and Pascal O. Girot

4498: Firm Size and Credit in Argentina

Sebastian Auguste, Ricardo Bebczuk and Gabriel Sanchez

4497: Small Is Not Beautiful: Firm-Level Evidence of the Link between Credit, Firm Size and Competitiveness in Colombia

Arturo Galindo and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

4494: The Pharmacological Channel Revisited: Alcohol Sales Restrictions and Crime in Bogota

Joao De Mello, Daniel Mejía and Lucía Suárez

4492: Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Andean Region

Inter American Development Bank, Andean Center for Economics in the Environment and Centro Andino para la Economía en el Medio Ambiente

4489: Are Educational Reforms Working in Latin America?: A New Look at Understanding Whether Education is Getting Better

Martin Carnoy

4488: Sustainable Recycling of PET Bottles in Rio de Janeiro

Luiz Edmundo Costa Leite and José Henrique Penido Monteiro

4486: Review of Valuation Studies for Coastal and Ocean Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lee G. Anderson and George Parsons

4484: Economic and Environmental Valuation Applied to Air Quality Management and Pollution Control Cases

Luis A. Cifuentes, Héctor Jorquera, Luis Rizzi and Javier Vergara

4482: Secondary Education: Critical Policy Issues

Benjamin Alvarez

4480: Secondary Education in the United States: What Can Others Learn from Our Mistakes?

Michael Bishop, Ferran Mane and John H. Bishop

4476: Public Management Policy Change in Brazil: 1995-1998

Francisco Gaetani

4475: Comparative Institutional Diagnosis of Civil Service Systems: Summary of 17 Country Evaluations

Francisco Longo

4473: Modernizing The State: Reflections on Next Generation Reforms to Strengthen the Capacity to Govern

Allen Schick

4471: Public Management Reform: Reliable Knowledge and International Experience

Christopher Pollitt

4469: Managing Public Sector Restructuring: Public Sector Downsizing and Redeployment Programs in Central and Eastern Europe

Wolfgang Drechsler

4415: Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security

Nicholas Stern and Nora Lustig

4412: Bolivia: Poverty Reduction Strategy

Gobierno de Bolivia

4410: Colombia: Solidarity Social Network

Guillermo Casasbuenas

4408: Common Problems of Back Door Neighbors: Social Security and Informal Employment in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela (Executive Summary)

Patricia Monteferrante and Samuel Freije-Rodriguez

4406: The Transition of the Social Policies in Brazil since the Old Paradigm towards the Unique Register

Carlos Alberto Ramos and Ana Lucia Lobato

4404: Targeting and Universalization as Instruments for the Reduction of Inequalities

Mirela de Carvalho and Ricardo Paes De Barros

4402: Sole Information Systems on Beneficiaries in Latin America

Ignacio Irarrázaval

4399: Innovations in Intergovernmental Financing for Promoting Equality in the Access to Social Services: Case Study of Health and Education in Brazil

Gabriel Ferrato dos Santos

4397: How do the Colombian Families Respond to the Changes in the Economic Conditions?

Luz Magdalena Salas Bahamón and Fabio Sanchez Torres

4395: Market Access under the Government Sector's Procurement Agreements

Laura Rojas

4392: Rules and Disciplines in Government Procurement Agreements

Norberto Iannelli

4390: Services, Anti-dumping and Other "New Issues" in the WTO Negotiations and Their Relevance for the FTAA

Alejandro Jara

4389: Asymmetric Capabilities in Trade Negotiations: Suggestions for Helping the Smaller Economies in the FTAA Process

Robert Cassidy and Ira Shapiro

4388: WTO Dispute Settlement Experience

John Jackson