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1693: Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti

Eduardo Cavallo, Andrew Powell and Oscar Becerra

1689: Financial Integration and Foreign Banks in Latin America: How Do They Impact the Transmission of External Financial Shocks?

Arturo Galindo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

1664: The Economics of Natural Disasters: A Survey

Eduardo Cavallo and Ilan Noy

1663: Institutional Quality and Fiscal Transparency

Nicoló Andreula, Alberto Chong and Jorge Guillén

1662: Happiness, Ideology and Crime in Argentine Cities

Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky

1659: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies for the Perfect Storm: The Case of the Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago

Alessandro Rebucci, Andrew Powell, André Minella and Nelson Sobrinho

1657: Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004

M Asadullah, Uma Kambhampati and Florencia Lopez Boo

1656: Social Mobility in Latin America: A Review of Existing Evidence

Viviane Azevedo and Cesar Patricio Bouillon

1655: How Much Are We Willing To Pay to Send Poor Adolescents to School?: Simulating Changes to Mexico`s Oportunidades in Urban Areas

Viviane Azevedo, César P. Bouillon and Patricia Yanez-Pagans

1654: Financial Development and TFP Growth: Cross-Country and Industry-Level Evidence

Francisco Arizala, Eduardo Cavallo and Arturo Galindo

1653: The Multilateral Response to the Global Crisis: Rationale, Modalities, and Feasibility

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Andrew Powell and Alessandro Rebucci

1652: Crisis Response in Latin America: Is the "Rainy Day" at Hand?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Peter Montiel

1650: Education and Democratic Preferences

Mark Gradstein and Alberto Chong

1649: Gender and Racial Wage Gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence Using a Matching Comparisons Approach

Paola Salardi and Hugo Ñopo

1647: Political Institutions, Intertemporal Cooperation, and the Quality of Policies

Carlos Scartascini, Ernesto Stein and Mariano Tommasi

1646: Ethnic and Gender Wage Gaps in Ecuador

María Lourdes Gallardo Montoya and Hugo Ñopo

1645: Taxonomy of Causes, Impacts and Policy Responses to the Food Price Crisis in the Andean Region

Fidel Jaramillo and Jose Cuesta

1644: The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach

Hugo Ñopo

1643: Information, Externalities and Socioeconomics of Malaria in Honduras: A Preliminary Analysis

Maria Victoria Avilés and Jose Cuesta

1642: The Political Economy of Productivity: Actors, Arenas, and Policies. A Framework of Analysis

Maria Victoria Murillo, Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

1641: Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas

Alberto Chong and Eliana La Ferrara

1640: Output Collapses and Productivity Destruction

Christian Daude, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Juan Blyde

1639: Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities

Vanessa Ríos, Alberto Chong and Hugo Ñopo

1638: Political Institutions, State Capabilities and Public Policy: International Evidence

Carlos Scartascini, Ernesto Stein and Mariano Tommasi

1636: Ethnicity and Human Capital Accumulation in Urban Mexico

Natalia Winder and Hugo Ñopo

1635: How Do Crises Affect Schooling Decisions?: Evidence from Changing Labor Market Opportunities and a Policy Experiment

Florencia Lopez Boo

1634: Do Credit Rating Agencies Add Value?: Evidence from the Sovereign Rating Business Institutions

Eduardo Cavallo, Andrew Powell and Roberto Rigobon

1633: The Conflictive Relationship between Satisfaction and Income

Eduardo Lora and Juan Chaparro

1632: Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America: What Happiness Research Can (and Cannot) Contribute

Carol Graham

1631: Public Investment in Developing Countries: A Blessing or a Curse?

Eduardo Cavallo and Christian Daude

1630: Inequality and geographical targeting of social spending: The case of Ecuador

Marcos Robles and Viviane Azevedo

1629: On the Micro-Foundations of Contract versus Conflict with Implications for International Peace-Making

Syed Mansoob Murshed and Jose Cuesta

1628: Systemic Sudden Stops: The Relevance of Balance-Sheet Effects and Financial Integration

Guillermo Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Luis Fernando Mejía

1627: Breaking Credibility in Monetary Policy: The Role of Politics in the Stability of the Central Banker

Miguel Ricardo Rueda R.

1626: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Guatemala from a Matching Comparisons Perspective

Hugo Ñopo and Alberto Gonzales

1624: Political Participation and Quality of Life

Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and Matthew S. Winters

1623: Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil

Eliana La Ferrara, Suzanne Duryea and Alberto Chong

1621: Gender Segregation in the Workplace and Wage Gaps: Evidence from Urban Mexico 1994-2004

Sebastian Calonico and Hugo Ñopo

1619: Stated Social Behavior and Revealed Actions: Evidence from 6 Latin American Countries Using Representative Samples

Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Alberto Chong and Hugo Ñopo

1617: Is the World Flat?: Or Do Countries Still Matter?

Mark Gradstein and Alberto Chong

1616: To What Extent do Latin Americans Trust and Cooperate?: Field Experiments on Social Exclusion In Six Latin American Countries

Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Alberto Chong and Hugo Ñopo

1614: Girls Just Want to Have Fun?: Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Motherhood among Bolivian Teenagers

Mariana Alfonso

1612: Booms and Busts in Latin America: The Role of External Factors

Alejandro Izquierdo, Randall Romero and Ernesto Talvi

1611: On Emerging Economy Sovereign Spreads and Ratings

Andrew Powell and Juan Francisco Martínez

1610: Who Needs Strong Leaders?

Mark Gradstein and Alberto Chong

1609: The Missing Point in CAFTA

José Antonio Reyes

1608: Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation in Colombia

Carlos Pombo and Luis Gutiérrez

1606: Fear and Market Failure: Global Imbalances and ¿Self-Insurance¿

Marcus Miller and Lei Zhang

1605: What Do You Think of the IDB?: Conclusions from an Opinion Survey of Latin American Leaders about Multilateral Organizations

Marina Bassi

1604: Minority Enrollments at Public Universities of Diverse Selectivity Levels under Different Admission Regimes: The Case of Texas

Mariana Alfonso and Juan Carlos Calcagno

1602: Multilateral Intermediation of Foreign Aid: What is the Trade-Off for Donor Countries?

Matteo Bobba and Andrew Powell

1600: Public Investment in Infrastructure in Latin America: Is Debt the Culprit?

Eduardo Lora

1599: Money Laundering and its Regulation

Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

1598: Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters

Matteo Bobba and Andrew Powell

1597: Returns to Private Education in Peru

Sebastian Calonico and Hugo Ñopo

1596: Corporate Governance in Latin America

Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

1595: Targeting the Structural Balance

Paolo Manasse, Ugo Panizza and Laura Dos Reis

1594: The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean

Suzanne Duryea, Sebastian Galiani, Claudia Piras and Hugo Ñopo

1593: What Do Latin Americans Think of the IDB?

Marina Bassi

1592: Policy Volatility and Growth

Mark Gradstein and Alberto Chong

1591: Optimal Sovereign Debt: An Analytical Approach

Jean Rochet

1589: Barriers to Exit

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Alberto Chong

1588: International Remittances and Income Inequality: An Empirical Investigation

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Valerie Koechlin

1587: Corporate Governance and Firm Value in Mexico

Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

1586: The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003: From a Matching Comparisons Perspective

Hugo Ñopo

1584: The Elusive Costs of Sovereign Defaults

Ugo Panizza and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

1583: An Evaluation of the Contractionary Devaluation Hypothesis

Ricardo Bebczuk, Ugo Panizza and Arturo Galindo

1581: Quid pro Quo: National Institutions and Sudden Stops in International Capital Movements

Eduardo Cavallo and Andrés Velasco

1580: Public Debt around the World: A New Dataset of Central Government Debt

Dany Jaimovich and Ugo Panizza

1578: Sovereign Debt: Indexation and Maturity

Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

1576: Debt Instruments and Policies in the New Millennium: New Markets and New Opportunities

Ugo Panizza, Eduardo Borensztein and Barry Eichengreen

1574: Is It Possible to Speak English Without Thinking American?: On Globalization and the Determinants of Cultural Assimilation

Alberto Chong

1573: Who's Afraid of Foreign Aid?: The Donors' Perspective

Mark Gradstein and Alberto Chong

1571: The Unexplained Part of Public Debt

Dany Jaimovich, Ugo Panizza and Camil F.S. Campos

1569: Do Sovereign Defaults Hurt Exporters?

Eduardo Borensztein and Ugo Panizza

1567: Global Factors and Emerging Market Spreads

Martín González Rozada and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

1565: The Under-Registration of Births in Latin America

Leslie F. Stone, Analía Olgiati and Suzanne Duryea

1563: Political Environment and Privatization Prices

Alejandro Riaño and Alberto E. Chong

1562: On Foreign Participation and Hiring Patterns After Privatization

Virgilio Galdo and Alberto Chong

1561: Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America: What Drives What?

Cesar Calderon and Alberto Chong

1560: Weak instruments and weak identification in estimating the effects of education on democracy

Decio Coviello and Matteo Bobba

1559: Why are Latin Americans so Unhappy about Reforms?

Ugo Panizza and Monica Yanez-Pagans

1558: Flexible Exchange Rate with Inflation Targeting in Chile: Experience and Issues

Andrea Tokman, Rodrigo Valdés and Jose De Gregorio

1557: Do Democracies Breed Rent-Seeking Behavior?

Cesar Calderon and Alberto Chong

1556: On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries

Mauricio Olivera and Alberto Chong

1555: Corporate Dollar Debt and Depreciations: Much Ado about Nothing?

Hoyt Bleakley and Kevin Cowan

1554: The Electoral Consequences of the Washington Consensus

Eduardo Lora and Mauricio Olivera

1553: Living with Dollarization and the Route to Dedollarization

Arturo Galindo and Leonardo Leiderman

1552: Innovation and Technology Adoption in Central America

Andres Rodriguez-Clare

1550: Microeconomic Interventions after the Washington Consensus

Andres Rodriguez-Clare

1548: The Housing Market in Colombia: Socioeconomic and Financial Determinants

Sergio Clavijo, Michel Janna and Santiago Muñoz

1545: Bank Ownership and Lending Behavior

Alejandro Micco and Ugo Panizza

1544: Bank Ownership and Performance

Alejandro Micco, Ugo Panizza and Monica Yanez-Pagans

1543: Should the Government Be in the Banking Business?: The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Alejandro Micco and Ugo Panizza

1541: Labor Market Regulations and Income Inequality: Evidence for a Panel of Countries

Cesar Calderon, Rodrigo Valdés and Alberto Chong

1538: Privatization in Mexico

Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

1536: Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Market Countries with an Application to Ecuador

Carlos Díaz Alvarado, Alejandro Izquierdo and Ugo Panizza

1532: Business-Government Interaction in Policy Councils in Latin America: Cheap Talk, Expensive Exchanges, or Collaborative Learning?

Ben Ross Schneider

1531: Notes on Optimal Growth, Climate Change Calamities, Adaptation and Mitigation

Omar Chisari

1511: The Discovery of New Export Products in Ecuador

Iván Hernández, Nathalie Cely, Francisco González, Ernesto Muñoz and Iván Prieto