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

Fernando Gabriel 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

Matias 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

Nestor 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 Lucia 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

Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño and Juan Munoz-Morales

12716: Import Processing and Trade Costs

Jeronimo 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, Joaquin 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 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, Andres Moya and Andrea Velasquez

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

Oscar Valencia, Luis Alberto Rodriguez and Juan Siachoque Campos

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

Matias 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, Maria Lombardi and Alejandra Ramos

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

Matias Busso and Juan Chauvin

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

Juan Blyde, Matias 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 Avellan, 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 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 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 Blyde, Christian Volpe Martincus, Marcelo Dolabella and Ignacio Marra de Artiñano

12539: The Risk of External Financial Crisis

Eduardo Cavallo and Eduardo Fernández-Arias

12536: Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean

Leonard Missbach, Jan Christoph Steckel and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

12527: Clusters and Resilience during the COVID–19 Crisis: Evidence from Colombian Exporting Firms

Mercedes Campi and Marco Duenas

12526: Fighting Global Warming: Is Trade Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean a Help or a Hindrance?: Technical Appendix

Marcelo Dolabella and Mauricio Moreira

12525: Multinational Production and Intra-firm Trade

Vanessa Alviarez and Ayhab Saad

12500: Means-tested transit subsidies in Latin America

Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Santiago Sánchez González and Vileydy González Mejia

12494: Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Aggregate and Distributional Effects

Tiago Cavalcanti, Zeina Hasna and Cezar Santos

12492: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Future Pensions of the Peruvian Pension System

Javier Olivera and José A. Valderrama

12490: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Formal Labor Market and the Pension System in El Salvador

Nelson Fuentes, Gonzalo Aguilar and Camila Trillos

12489: The Impact of Covid-19 on Pensions due to Early Withdrawals of Pension Savings

Rubén Castro, Leonardo González, Ignacio Schiappacasse and Juan Tapia

12488: Willingness to pay for crime reduction: evidence from six countries in the Americas

Patricio Domínguez and Carlos Scartascini

12487: Global and Regional Value Chains in Latin America in Times of Pandemic

Vanessa Alviarez

12484: When can lotteries improve public procurement processes?

Antonio Estache, Renaud Foucart and Tomas Serebrisky

12483: The Potential of Smart Matching Platforms in Teacher Assignment: The Case of Ecuador

Gregory Elacqua, Leidy Gómez, Thomas Krussig, Luana Marotta, Carolina Méndez and Christopher Neilson

12482: Assessing Macro-Fiscal Risk for Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Oscar Valencia, Diego A. Parra and Juan Camilo Díaz

12473: Improving Early Literacy through Teacher Professional Development: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Horacio Álvarez Marinelli, Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso and Julián Martínez Correa

12469: When Women Win: Can Female Representation Decrease Gender-Based Violence?

Veronica Frisancho, Evi Pappa and Chiara Santantonio

12468: Estimating the effect of urban road congestion on air quality in Latin America

Felipe Bedoya-Maya, Agustina Calatayud and Vileydy González Mejia

12467: Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on Pension Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Argentina

Rafael Rofman, Joaquín Baliña and Emanuel López Méndez

12463: Mitigating Coercive Parenting through Home Visitations: The Impacts of a Parenting Program Targeted at Vulnerable Communities in Jamaica

Francesco De Simone, Camila Mejia, José Martinez-Carrasco, Santiago Perez-Vincent and Harold Villalba

12460: The Economic Impact of Sargassum: Evidence from the Mexican Coast

Maja Schling, Roberto Guerrero Compeán, Nicolás Pazos, Allison Bailey, Katie Arkema and Mary Ruckelshaus

12456: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean countries: The Labor Supply Impact by Gender

Mariana Viollaz, Mauricio Salazar-Saenz, Luca Flabbi, Monserrat Bustelo and Mariano Bosch

12451: Digging Deep: Resource Exploitation and Higher Education

Lenin Balza, Camilo De Los Rios and Nathaly Rivera

12422: Corporate Debt and Investment in the Post-Covid World

Rodrigo Heresi and Andrew Powell

12411: Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response

Juan Chauvin and Clemence Tricaud

12405: Numerical Compliance with Fiscal Rules in Latin America and the Caribbean

Oscar Valencia and Carolina Ulloa-Suarez

12394: Good Schools or Good Students?: Evidence on School Effects from Universal Random Assignment of Students to High Schools

Julian P. Cristia, Paulo Bastos, Kim Beomsoo and Ofer Malamud

12385: Options to achieve net-zero emissions from agriculture and land use changes in Latin America and the Caribbean

Patrice Dumas, Stefan Wirsenius, Tim Searchinger, Nadine Andrieu and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

12384: Fighting Global Warming: Is Trade Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean a Help or a Hindrance?

Marcelo Dolabella and Mauricio Moreira

12369: The Impact of Smart Subsidies on Agricultural Production: Innovative Evidence from Argentina Using Survey and Remote Sensing Data

Maja Schling and Nicolás Pazos

12367: Remote Parent Coaching in Preschool Mathematics: Evidence from Peru

Emma Näslund-Hadley, Juan Manuel Hernández Agramonte, Carolina Méndez and Fernando Fernandez

12359: The Effect of a Crisis on Trust and Willingness to Reform: Evidence from Survey Panels in Argentina and Uruguay

Alejandro Bonvecchi, Ernesto Calvo, Susana Otálvaro-Ramírez and Carlos Scartascini

12356: ¿Impacta la calidad regulatoria de los servicios de infraestructura en el crecimiento económico y la distribución del ingreso?: el caso de América Latina y el Caribe

Leonardo Mastronardi, Omar Chisari, Juan I. Mercatante and Tomas Serebrisky

12332: Access to water and COVID-19: a regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima, Peru

Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Mauro Gutiérrez, Sandro Huamaní, Diego Marino, Tomas Serebrisky and Ben Solís

12327: Long-Term Strategies for Decarbonization in Latin America: Learnings from Actor-Based Insights into the Drafting Process

Paulina Calfucoy, Marta Torres Gunfaus, Andreas Fazekas and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

12307: Helping Families Help Themselves? The (Un)intended Impacts of a Digital Parenting Program

Sofía Amaral, Lelys Dinarte, Patricio Domínguez and Santiago Perez-Vincent

12294: Measuring the Socioeconomic Impact of Last-Mile Infrastructure Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pau Puig Gabarró, Raúl Katz, Hernán Galperin, Fernando Callorda, Enrique Iglesias Rodriguez, Antonio García Zaballos, Marcos Robles and Ramiro Valencia

12287: Natural Resource Windfalls In Nonproducing Areas

Alejandro Ome and Javier Pérez

12276: Allocative Efficiency of Government Spending for Growth in Latin American Countries

Carola Pessino, Nadir Altinok and Cristian Chagalj

12268: The Labor Market Worsening Effects of a Resource Bust: Evidence from the Crude Oil Price Shock in Ecuador

Sergio Parra-Cely and Wladimir Zanoni

12260: Subsidios al transporte público en América Latina desde una perspectiva de eficiencia: aplicación a Bogotá, Colombia

Julian Gómez Gélvez and Carlos Mojica

12256: Does Citizen Participation in Budget Allocation Pay? A Survey Experiment on Political Trust and Participatory Governance

Martín Ardanaz, Susana Otálvaro-Ramírez and Carlos Scartascini

12238: Helping Struggling Students and Benefiting All: Peer Effects in Primary Education

Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso and Michele Giannola

12236: Risk Spillovers between Global Corporations and Latin American Sovereigns: Global Factors Matter

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Jorge Uribe and Oscar Valencia

12235: Debt Affordability in Developed and Emerging Market Economies: The Role of Fiscal Rules

Oscar Valencia, Jose Gomez-Gonzalez and Gustavo Sánchez

12234: Ownership Networks and Earnings Inequality

Federico Huneeus, Borja Larrain, Mauricio Larrain and Mounu Prem

12233: From Wells to Wealth? Government Transfers and Human Capital

Julio Acuna, Lenin Balza and Nicolás Gómez Parra

12232: Labor Market and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Latin America Amid COVID: The Role of Digital Adoption Policies

Victoria Nuguer and Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro

12212: Water Bill Perception in Brazil: Do Households Get It Right?

María Pérez Urdiales, Jesse Madden Libra, Kleber Machado, Tomas Serebrisky and Ben Solís

12201: Responses to Temperature Shocks: Labor Markets and Migration Decisions in El Salvador

Ana Ibáñez, Juliana Quigua, Jimena Romero and Andrea Velasquez

12198: How Does Market Competition Affect Firm Innovation Incentives in Emerging Countries? Evidence from Chile and Colombia

Jose Miguel Benavente and Pluvia Zuniga