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12119: Policy options to mitigate the fiscal impact of road transport decarbonization: the case of Costa Rica

Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Marcela Jaramillo, Luis Víctor-Gallardo, Jairo Quirós-Tortos and Mónica Rodríguez-Zúñiga

12093: The effects of ethnomathematics education on student outcomes: The JADENKÄ Program in the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca, Panama

Emma Näslund-Hadley, Juan Manuel Hernández Agramonte, Carmen Albertos, Ana Grigera, Cynthia Hobbs and Horacio Álvarez Marinelli

12046: Sudden Stops in Latin America and the Caribbean during COVID-19

Eduardo Cavallo, María José González Jaramillo, Juan Hernández and Andrew Powell

12041: El impacto de los programas de inversión pública en turismo sobre los ingresos por turismo en América Latina y el Caribe

Adrián Risso

12014: Impacto de las intervenciones físicas en el transporte público en Medellín (Colombia) como herramientas para reducir la exclusión social

Gustavo A. García, Andrés Ramírez-Hassan, Estefanía Saravia, Raquel Vargas, Juan Fernando Duque and Daniel Londoño

12013: Impacto del programa de subsidios en el transporte escolar en Medellín (Colombia) como herramientas para reducir la exclusión social

Gustavo Antonio García, Andrés Ramírez-Hassan, Estefanía Saravia, Raquel Vargas, Juan Fernando Duque and Daniel Londoño

12007: Knowledge for Results and the Efficiency of Public Agencies in Colombia

Diego Arisi, Alix Cortés, Diego Delic and Martín Rossi

11995: Do Creative Industries Enhance Employment Growth? Regional Evidence from Colombia

Mercedes Campi, Marco Duenas and Tommaso Ciarli

11990: The Gender Gap in Public S&T Funding: The Matilda Effect in STEM Disciplines in Argentina

Florencia Fiorentin, Mariano Pereira and Diana Suárez

11987: Government fragmentation and educational outcomes: evidence on the creation of municipalities in Chile

Manuel Alcaíno, Analia Jaimovich, Carolina Méndez and Diana Vásquez

11985: Exposure or Income? The Unequal Effects of Pollution on Daily Labor Supply

Bridget Hoffmann and Juan Pablo Rud

11984: Agricultural Productivity in El Salvador: A Preliminary Analysis

Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, Eric Njuki, Ana Claudia Palacios and Lina Salazar

11983: How Much Will It Cost to Achieve the Climate Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Luis Miguel Galindo Paliza, Bridget Hoffmann and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

11982: Bridging the Gap: Mobilization of Multilateral Development Banks in Infrastructure

Leopoldo Avellan, Arturo Galindo, Giulia Lotti and Juan Pablo Rodríguez Bonilla

11962: Marshallian and Jacobian Externalities in Creative Industries

Daniel Goya

11952: Agglomeration and Congestion in Latin America

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

11937: Higher Inequality in Latin America: A Collateral Effect of the Pandemic

Ivonne Acevedo, Francesca Castellani, María José Cota, Giulia Lotti and Miguel Székely

11897: Exporting and Environmental Performance: Where You Export Matters

Juan Blyde and Mayra A. Ramírez

11895: Fintech Entry, Firm Financial Inclusion, and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Emerging Economies

Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro, Federico Mandelman and Victoria Nuguer

11894: Does Public Investment Contribute to Increasing Institutional and Interpersonal Trust?: Place-Based Policies for Sports and Cultural Activities in Cali, Colombia

Lina María Martínez and Juan Tomás Sayago

11892: Effective Land Ownership, Female Empowerment, and Food Security: Evidence from Peru

Maja Schling and Nicolás Pazos

11888: Improving Early Childhood Development Outcomes in Times of COVID-19: Experimental Evidence on Parental Networks and SMS Messages

Juan Hernández, Olga Namen, Emma Naslund-Hadley and María Loreto Biehl

11873: Real Exchange Rates and Primary Commodity Prices: Mussa Meets Backus-Smith

Joao Ayres, Constantino Hevia and Juan Pablo Nicolini

11857: The Output Effects of Fiscal Consolidations: Does Spending Composition Matter?

Martin Ardanaz, Eduardo Cavallo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Jorge Puig

11854: The Market Design Approach to Teacher Assignment: Evidence from Ecuador

Gregory Elacqua, Anne Sofie Westh Olsen and Santiago Velez-Ferro

11850: Interactions between Conditional Cash Transfers and Preferred Secondary Schools in Jamaica

Diether Beuermann, Andrea Ramos Bonilla and Marco Stampini

11839: International Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean amid the COVID-19 Crisis: A Push for Digitalization?

Veronica Frisancho and Eric Parrado

11818: Spatial and Time Spillovers of Driving Restrictions: Causal Evidence from Limas Pico y Placa Policy

Edgar Salgado and Oscar Mitnik

11787: Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years

M. Caridad Araujo and Karen Macours

11782: Do Trade Agreements Contribute to the Decline in Labor Share? Evidence from Latin American Countries

Martín González Rozada and Hernán Ruffo

11777: Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Application of the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez, Ana R. Rios and Cicero Z. de Lima

11768: Quantifying COVID-19’s Silver Lining: Avoided Deaths from Air Quality Improvements in Bogotá

Allen Blackman, Jorge Alexander Bonilla and Laura Villalobos

11756: Do Civil Servants Respond to Behavioral Interventions?: A Field Experiment

Carlos Scartascini and Paula Zamora

11733: Risk Transfer for Multilateral Development Banks: Obstacles and Potential

Federico Galizia, William Perraudin, Andrew Powell and Timothy Turner

11727: Breathe Easy, There's an App for That: Using Information and Communication Technology to Avoid Air Pollution in Bogotá

Allen Blackman and Bridget Hoffmann

11726: The Impact of ISO 14001 Environmental Standards on Exports

Juan Blyde

11716: Domestic Violence Reporting during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Latin America

Santiago Perez-Vincent and Enrique Carreras

11714: Turn Off the Faucet: Solving Excess Water Consumption with Individual Meters

Ivette Contreras, Paul Carrillo and Carlos Scartascini

11713: High and Dry: Stranded Natural Gas Reserves and Fiscal Revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean

Dan Welsby, Baltazar Solano-Rodriguez, Steve Pye and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

11696: Do Slum Upgrading Programs Impact School Attendance?

Wladimir Zanoni, Paloma Acevedo and Diego Guerrero

11680: Visitas domiciliarias a escala y desarrollo infantil

M. Caridad Araujo, Marta Dormal, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Fabiola Lazarte, Marta Rubio-Codina and Norbert Schady

11673: Making the Links between Ride-hailing and Public Transit Ridership: Impacts in Medium and Large Colombian Cities

Lynn Scholl, Felipe Bedoya-Maya, Orlando Sabogal-Cardona and Daniel Oviedo

11663: Cities and Public Health in Latin America

Juan Chauvin

11662: The Impact of Natural Disasters on Economic Growth

Eduardo Cavallo, Oscar Becerra and Laura Acevedo

11661: Can a Budget Recording Tool Teach Financial Skills to Youth?: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Diaries Study

Veronica Frisancho, Alejandro Herrera and Silvia Prina

11627: Footprint of Export-Related GHG Emissions from Latin America and the Caribbean

Kun Li

11626: Effects of Innovation on Employment: An Analysis at the Firm Level in Bolivia

Carlos Foronda and Javier Beverinotti

11608: Does Education Prevent Job Loss during Downturns?: Evidence from Exogenous Schools Assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados

Diether Beuermann, Nicolas Bottan, Bridget Hoffmann, C. Kirabo Jackson and Diego A. Vera-Cossio

11607: Using Satellite Images to Measure Crop Productivity: Long-Term Impact Assessment of a Randomized Technology Adoption Program in the Dominican Republic

Lina Salazar, Ana Claudia Palacios, Michael Selvaraj and Frank Montenegro

11602: Trust towards Migrants

Nestor Gandelman and Diego Lamé

11599: How Does it Feel to Be Part of the Minority?: Impacts of Perspective Taking on Prosocial Behavior

Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc and Sandra Rozo

11541: Order Effects and Employment Decisions: Experimental Evidence from a Nationwide Program

Nicolás Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta and Anne Sofie Westh Olsen

11537: External Shocks and FX Intervention Policy in Emerging Economies

Alex Carrasco Martinez and David Florián

11536: Why Does COVID-19 Affect Some Cities More than Others?: Evidence from the First Year of the Pandemic in Brazil

Juan Chauvin

11535: Technology, Identification, and Access to Social Programs: Experimental Evidence from Panama

Angela Reyes, Benjamin Roseth and Diego A. Vera-Cossio

11519: The Effects of Management Practices on Effective Tax Rates: Evidence from Ecuador

Javier Beverinotti, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, María Cecilia Deza and Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin

11500: Not My Usual Trip: Ride-hailing Characterization in Mexico City

Orlando Sabogal-Cardona, Lynn Scholl, Daniel Oviedo, Amado Crotte Alvarado and Felipe Bedoya-Maya

11474: How Can We Improve Air Pollution?: Try Increasing Trust First

Fernando G. Cafferata, Bridget Hoffmann and Carlos Scartascini

11423: Crime under Lockdown: The Impact of COVID-19 on Citizen Security in the City of Buenos Aires

Santiago Perez-Vincent, Ernesto Schargrodsky and Mauricio García Mejía

11404: Sectoral Productivity Growth, COVID-19 Shocks, and Infrastructure

Hildegart Ahumada, Eduardo Cavallo, Santos Espina-Mairal and Fernando Navajas

11403: Understanding the Growth of the Middle Class in Bolivia

Javier Beverinotti, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza and Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas

11392: An Amazon Tipping Point: The Economic and Environmental Fallout

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez, Marcia Macedo, Peter Verburg, Sean Goodwin, Renato Vargas, Ludmila Rattis, Paulo M. Brando, Michael T. Coe, Christopher Neill and Octavio Damiani

11391: Increasing the Take-up of Public Health Services: An Experiment on Nudges and Digital Tools in Uruguay

Mario Sanchez, Benjamin Roseth, Ana María Cuesta, Sebastian Gallegos and Lucia Delgado

11387: The Power of Perception: Limitations of Information in Reducing Air Pollution Exposure

Rema Hanna, Bridget Hoffmann, Paulina Oliva and Jake Schneider

11385: Trustful Voters, Trustworthy Politicians: A Survey Experiment on the Influence of Social Media in Politics

Natalia Aruguete, Ernesto Calvo, Carlos Scartascini and Tiago Ventura

11382: Knowledge for Development: the IDB's Impact in the Region

Leopoldo Avellan, Claudia Calderón, Giulia Lotti and Wanner, Z’leste

11381: May I Calculate Your Taxes?: The Effect of Bookkeeping on Tax Compliance under a Simplified Regime

Rosangela Bando, Otavio Canozzi, José Martinez-Carrasco and Ana Lucia Dezolt

11379: The Local Human Capital Costs of Oil Exploitation

Lenin Balza, Camilo De Los Rios, Raul Jimenez Mori and Osmel Manzano Mazzali

11356: The Impact of Policy Measures on Trade in Services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Danielle Trachtenberg

11353: Firm Entry and Exit during Recessions

Joao Ayres and Gajendran Raveendranathan

11345: Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Being Overweight or Obese in Suriname

Jeetendra Khadan, Nekeisha Spencer, Eric Strobl and Theophiline Bose-Duker

11332: Liquidity or Capital?: The Impacts of Easing Credit Constraints in Rural Mexico

Gabriela Aparicio, Vida Bobicì, Fernando De Olloqui, Maria Carmen Fernandez Diez, María Paula Gerardino, Oscar Mitnik and Sebastián Vargas

11331: Curbing Grand Corruption in the Contracting Out of Public Services: Lessons from a Pilot Study of the School Meals Program in Colombia

Philip Keefer and Benjamin Roseth

11329: Global Giants and Local Stars: How Changes in Brand Ownership Affect Competition

Vanessa Alviarez, Keith Head and Thierry Mayer

11326: Attitudes towards Migrants during Crisis Times

Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc and Sandra Rozo

11312: Socioeconomic Status and Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Eight Large Latin American Cities

J. Daniel Aromi, María Paula Bonel, Julian Cristia, Martín Llada and Luis Palomino

11308: Economic Valuation of the Ecosystem Services of the Mesoamerican Reef, and the Allocation and Distribution of these Values

Itziar Ruiz de Gauna, Anil Markandya, Laura Onofri, Francisco Greño, Javier Warman, Norma Arce, Natalia Navarrete, Marisol Rivera, Rebeca Kobelkowsky, Mayela Vargas and Marisol Hernández

11303: Welfare Effects of Capital Controls

Eugenia Andreasen, Sofia Bauducco and Evangelina Dardati

11294: Reverse Causality between Oil Policy and Fiscal Policy?: The Venezuelan Experience

Osmel Manzano Mazzali and José Luis Saboin

11252: Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector

Philip Keefer, Sergio Perilla and Razvan Vlaicu

11249: Diminishing Returns: Nudging Covid-19 Prevention Among Colombian Young Adults

Allen Blackman and Bridget Hoffmann

11234: Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages

Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman and Claudia Martínez A.

11220: Good Peers Have Asymmetric Gendered Effects on Female Educational Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Matias Busso and Veronica Frisancho

11208: ¿Funciona integrar servicios de primera infancia con los servicios de salud?: Evidencia experimental del programa de visitas domiciliarias Cresça Com Seu Filho

Florencia Lopez Boo, María de la Paz Ferro Venegas and Pedro Carneiro

11204: On the Demand for Telemedicine: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Matias Busso, María P. González and Carlos Scartascini

11199: Informalidad en los tiempos del COVID-19 en América Latina: Implicaciones y opciones de amortiguamiento

Ivonne Acevedo, Francesca Castellani, Giulia Lotti and Miguel Székely

11189: 70 to 700 to 70,000: Lessons from the Jamaica Experiment

M. Caridad Araujo, Marta Rubio-Codina and Norbert Schady

11175: Reallocation and Productivity during Commodity Cycles

Rodrigo Heresi

11172: Knowledge-Based Capital in a Set of Latin American Countries: The LA KLEMS-IADB Project

Eva Benages and Matilde Mas

11169: Public Investment and Fiscal Crisis in Brazil: Finding Culprits and Solutions

Marco Bonomo, Claudio Frischtak and Paulo Ribeiro

11158: Unraveling the Network of the Extractive Industries

Lenin Balza, Camilo De Los Rios Rueda, Alfredo Guerra, Luis Herrera-Prada and Osmel Manzano Mazzali

11157: Productividad y eficiencia en la producción ganadera pastoril en América Latina: Los casos de Bolivia y Colombia

Heber Freiría, Alejandro Nin Pratt and Gonzalo Muñoz

11142: Vieja infraestructura financia nueva infraestructura: Un modelo de crecimiento de generaciones traslapadas para reciclaje de activos públicos

Roberto Muñoz, Sergio Alejandro Hinojosa, Patricio Mansilla, Juan Gomez Reino and Gerardo Reyes-Tagle

11137: Sudden Stops, Sovereign Risk, and Fiscal Rules

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Oscar Valencia and Gustavo Sánchez

11135: Intervención conductual para mejorar el cumplimiento de la cuota de empleo de personas con discapacidad en Perú

Mariano Bosch, Suzanne Duryea, Stephanie González and María Teresa Silva Porto

11121: Do You Have COVID-19?: How to Increase the Use of Diagnostic and Contact-Tracing Apps

Déborah Martínez Villarreal, Cristina Parilli, Ana María Rojas Méndez, Carlos Scartascini and Alberto Simpser

11118: Teacher Hiring Instruments and Teacher Value Added: Evidence from Peru

Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Carolina Méndez and Humberto Santos

11114: Chasing Informality: Evidence from Increasing Enforcement in Large Firms in Peru

Mariano Bosch, Stephanie González and María Teresa Silva Porto

11104: Citizenship and the Economic Assimilation of Canadian Immigrants

Wladimir Zanoni and Ailin He

11101: Preferred and Non-Preferred Creditors

Tito Cordella and Andrew Powell