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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

11095: Another Brick on the Wall: On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being

Rosangela Bando, Sebastian Galiani and Paul Gertler

11094: ¿Usar o perder los bosques?: Extracción regulada de madera y pérdida de cobertura forestal en México

Allen Blackman and Laura Villalobos

11093: Fiscal Rule and Public Investment in Chile

Rodrigo Fuentes, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Raimundo Soto

11076: Efectos económicos y ambientales del Plan de Descarbonización de Costa Rica: Una aplicación de la Plataforma IEEM al Sector de Energía y Transporte

Onil Banerjee and Martín Cicowiez

11075: Decarbonization of Costa Rica's Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses Sectors: An Application of the IEEM ESM Approach

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez, Renato Vargas and Edmundo Molina-Pérez

11049: Fiscal Rules and the Behavior of Public Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards Growth-Friendly Fiscal Policy?: The case of Argentina

Daniel Artana, Cynthia Moskovits, Jorge Puig and Ivana Templado

11040: A Fiscal Rule to Achieve Debt Sustainability in Colombia

María Angélica Arbeláez, Miguel Benítez, Roberto Steiner and Oscar Valencia

11038: Let's (Not) Get Together!: The Role of Social Norms in Social Distancing during COVID-19

Déborah Martínez Villarreal, Cristina Parilli, Carlos Scartascini and Alberto Simpser

11029: Water Infrastructure Planning for the Uncertain Future in Latin America a Cost - and Time - Efficient Approach for Making Robust Infrastructure Decisions, with a Case Study on Mendoza, Argentina

David G. Groves, Michelle Miro, James Syme, Alejandro U. Becerra-Ornelas, Edmundo Molina-Pérez, Valentina Saavedra and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

11020: Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences

Vanessa Alviarez, Javier Cravino and Natalia Ramondo

11010: Fiscal Rules and Public Investment: The Case of Peru, 2000-2019

Waldo Mendoza Bellido, Marco Vega, Carlos Rojas Quiroz and Yuliño Anastacio

10986: Firm-Level Shocks and Labor Flows

Mikael Carlsson, Julian Messina and Oskar Skans

10958: Do Immigrants Bring Fiscal Dividends?: The Case of Venezuelan Immigration in Colombia

Oscar Valencia, Matilde Angarita, Juan Santaella and Marcela De Castro

10937: The Value of Biodiversity in Economic Decision Making: Applying the IEEM ESM Approach to Conservation Strategies in Colombia

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez, Peter Verburg, Renato Vargas and Sean Goodwin

10925: Ansiedad matemática y rendimiento académico en matemáticas de docentes y estudiantes en un contexto de bajos ingresos

Lindsey Engle Richland, Emma Näslund-Hadley, Haydée Alonzo, Emily Lyons and Elayne Vollman

10899: Savings Groups, Risk Coping, and Financial Inclusion in Rural Areas

Veronica Frisancho and Martín Valdivia

10893: Nudging Parents to Increase Preschool Attendance in Uruguay

Maria Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Diaz, Laura Becerra, Juan Manuel Hernández Agramonte, Florencia Lopez Boo, Marcelo Pérez Alfaro and Alejandro Vasquez Echeverria

10892: Capital Flow Management Measures and Dollarization

Eugenia Andreasen and Victoria Nuguer

10887: Rural-Urban Migration at High Urbanization Levels

Matias Busso, Juan Chauvin and Nicolás Herrera L.

10885: Integrating the Value of Natural Capital in Evidence-Based Policy Making

Onil Banerjee, Renato Vargas and Martín Cicowiez

10877: Insurance and Propagation in Village Networks

Cynthia Kinnan, Krislert Samphantharak, Robert Townsend and Diego A. Vera-Cossio

10868: Validez predictiva de pruebas cortas comúnmente usadas para medir el desarrollo infantil en estudios a gran escala

Marta Rubio-Codina and Sally Grantham-McGregor

10863: The Younger Age Profile of COVID-19 Deaths in Developing Countries

Juan Chauvin, Annabelle Fowler and Nicolás Herrera L.

10859: Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development

Samuel Berlinski, María Marta Ferreyra, Luca Flabbi and Juan David Martin

10849: Social Protection and Informality in Latin America during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Matias Busso, Juanita Camacho, Julian Messina and Guadalupe Montenegro

10841: Stepping Up During a Crisis: The Unintended Effects of a Noncontributory Pension Program during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Nicolas Bottan, Bridget Hoffmann and Diego A. Vera-Cossio

10820: Methods for Modeling Public Policy and Investment Impacts on the Economy, Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services

Onil Banerjee, Neville Crossman, Renato Vargas, Luke Brander, Peter Verburg, Martín Cicowiez, Jennifer Hauck and Emily McKenzie

10812: Nudging Taxpayer Registration?: Field Experimental Evidence on Backfiring Incentives

Huáscar Eguino, Soraya Roman and Simeon Schächtele

10803: The Impact of University Reputation on Employment Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Bolivia

Manuel Urquidi, Ricardo Nogales and Pamela Córdova

10780: Primary Balance: Sustainability Analysis under Uncertainty

Valerie Lankester Campos, Kerry Loaiza Marín and Carlos Monge Badilla

10767: The Long-Term Effects of Job Training on Labor Market and Skills Outcomes in Chile

Annabelle Doerr and Rafael Novella

10757: Disasters and Loss of Life: New Evidence on the Effect of Disaster Risk Management Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Roberto Guerrero Compeán and Sergio Lacambra Ayuso

10708: Fiscal Sustainability Assessment for Suriname 1978-2017: A Fiscal Reaction Function Approach

Albert Mungroo and Peggy Tjon Kie Sim-Balker

10702: Net-zero Deep Decarbonization Pathways in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities

Chris Bataille, Henri Waisman, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Marcela Jaramillo, Ricardo Delgado, Ricardo Arguello, Leon Clarke, Thomas Wild, Francisco Lallana, Gonzalo Bravo, Gaëlle Le Treut, Gustavo Nadal, Guido Godinez, Jairo Quirós-Tortos, Eunice Pereira, Mark Howells, Daniel Buira, Jordi Tovilla, Jamil Farbes, Jones Ryan, Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Mauricio Collado, Fernando Requejo, Ximena Gómez, Rafael Soria, Daniel Villamar, Pedro Rochedo, Mariana Imperio, Yann Briand and Johannes Svensson

10696: Working Less to Take Care of Parents?: Labor Market Effects of Family Long-Term Care in Latin America

Marco Stampini, María Laura Oliveri, Pablo Ibarrarán, Diana Londoño, Rhee, Ho June (Sean) and Gillinda M. James

10656: #StayAtHome: Social Distancing Policies and Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean

J. Daniel Aromi, María Paula Bonel, Julian Cristia, Martín Llada, Juan I. Pereira, Xiomara Pulido and Julieth Santamaria

10652: Debt Sustainability in Guatemala: Institutional Arrangement and Quantitative Analysis

Juan Carlos Catalán-Herrera

10582: The Unequal Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Evidence from Seventeen Developing Countries

Nicolas Bottan, Bridget Hoffmann and Diego A. Vera-Cossio

10576: Altruism or Money?: Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru

Nicolas Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta and Carolina Méndez

10561: A Playground for Tax Compliance?: Testing Fiscal Exchange in an RCT in Argentina

Huáscar Eguino and Simeon Schächtele

10548: Peer Effects in the Decision to Apply for a Professional Excellence Award

Samuel Berlinski and Alejandra Ramos

10542: Automation in Latin America: Are Women at Higher Risk of Losing Their Jobs?

Monserrat Bustelo, Pablo Egaña del Sol, Laura Ripani, Nicolás Soler and Mariana Viollaz

10541: Venezuelan Migration in Peru: Short-term Adjustments in the Labor Market

Fernando Morales and Martha Denisse Pierola

10540: Heterogeneous Labor Impacts of Migration Across Skill Groups: The Case of Costa Rica

Juan Blyde

10529: Tempering the Taste for Vengeance: Information about Prisoners and Policy Choices in Chile

Carlos Scartascini, Fernando G. Cafferata and Daniel Gingerich

10527: AvaliaçaÞo ex-post de um Programa de Desenvolvimento do Turismo no Brasil a partir da integraçaÞo de avaliaçaÞo de impacto com Equilíbrio Geral Computável: Evidencias para o Prodetur-Pernambuco

Ignacio Tavares, Aléssio Tony Cavalcanti de Almeida, Denise Levy and Onil Banerjee

10517: Trade, Productivity, Innovation, and Employment: Lessons from the Impact of Chinese Competition on Manufacturing in Brazil

Mauricio Moreira, Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc, Filipe Lage de Sousa and Federico Merchán

10513: Preventing Sudden Stops in Net Capital Flows

Eduardo Cavallo, Alejandro Izquierdo and John León-Díaz

10508: El efecto del gasto público en el déficit de vivienda en el Perú a nivel municipal

Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren and Rene Osorio Rivas

10476: Bank Competition and The Price of Credit: Evidence Using Mexican Loan Level Data

Carlos Cañón, Edgar Cortés and Rodolfo Guerrero

10472: South-South Migration and Female Labor Supply in the Dominican Republic

Tatiana Hiller and Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc

10465: Informational Switching Costs, Bank Competition and the Cost of Finance

Jose Ornelas, Marcos Soares da Silva and Bernardus Van Doornik

10459: Resilience and Fragility in Global Banking: Impacts on Emerging Economies

Marina Conesa, Giulia Lotti and Andrew Powell

10450: Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending

Philip Keefer, Carlos Scartascini and Razvan Vlaicu

10432: Bad Taste: Gender Discrimination in the Consumer Credit Market

Ana María Montoya, Eric Parrado, Alex Solis and Raimundo Undurraga

10430: Online Business Platforms and International Trade

Jeronimo Carballo, Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc, Catalina Salas Santa and Christian Volpe Martincus

10399: The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch

10398: Do Imports of Intermediate Inputs Generate Higher Productivity?: Evidence from Ecuadorian Manufacturing

Kathia Pinzón and Paul A. Carrillo Maldonado

10366: Long-Term Gains from Longer School Days

Patricio Domínguez and Krista Ruffini

10321: The Regulation of Distributed Solar Power Generation in Costa Rica: Status, Challenges and Options for the Future

Jorge Cornick and José Daniel Lara

10319: Local Labor Markets and Higher Education Mismatch: What is The Role of Public and Private Institutions?

Elena Arias Ortiz, Mary Kaltenberg, Cristian Jara-Figueroa, Iván Bornacelly and Dominik Hartmann

10317: Intermittent Renewable Energy, Hydropower Dynamics and the Profitability of Storage Arbitrage

Miguel Castro Abril

10270: The Role of Institutional Quality on the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus

Leopoldo Avellan, Arturo Galindo and John León-Díaz

10264: How Potential Offenders and Victims Interact: A Case-Study from a Public Transportation Reform

Patricio Domínguez

10262: Following Public Finances: The Mirage of MDBs Countercyclicality

Leopoldo Avellan, Arturo Galindo and Giulia Lotti

10249: Firm Exit during Recessions

Joao Ayres and Gajendran Raveendranathan

10248: What is The Price of Freedom?: Estimating Women's Willingness to Pay for Job Schedule Flexibility

Monserrat Bustelo, Ana Diaz Escobar, Jeanne Lafortune, Claudia Piras, Luz Magdalena Salas Bahamón and José Tessada

10218: La enfermedad de costos de Baumol y el transporte público

Andrés Gómez-Lobo and Juan José Price

10189: The Economics of Investment in Flood Risk Reduction in Developing Countries: An Application to the Rocha River Basin of Bolivia

David Corderi, Tsuneki Hori and Luis Eduardo Yamín

10184: Desenterrando tesoros: Mejorando el rendimiento fiscal del capital histórico y cultural: Aplicación al Barrio La Floresta en Quito

Anne-Laure Mascle-Allemand, Sergio Alejandro Hinojosa and Juan Gomez Reino

10169: All They're Cracked Up to Be?: The Impact of Chicken Transfers in Guatemala

Conner Mullally, Mayra Rivas and Travis McArthur

10159: Growth-friendly Fiscal Rules?: Safeguarding Public Investment from Budget Cuts through Fiscal Rule Design

Eduardo Cavallo, Alejandro Izquierdo, Martin Ardanaz and Jorge Puig

10141: Retail Pricing in Colombia to Support the Efficient Deployment of Distributed Generation and Electric Vehicles

Shaun McRae and Frank A. Wolak

10118: Multinational Production and "Soft" Industrial Policies

Jeronimo Carballo, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano and Christian Volpe Martincus

10117: Self-Perceptions about Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mexico City

Matteo Bobba and Veronica Frisancho

10111: Early Skill Gap Effects on Long-Run Outcomes and Parental Investments

Pablo Celhay and Sebastian Gallegos

10105: The China Effect on Colombia’s Manufacturing Labor Market

Danielken Molina

10103: Poverty and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Surinamese Households

Jeetendra Khadan, Eric Strobl and Theophiline Tuffour

10101: Timing Is Everything: Optimal EV Charging To Maximize Welfare

Miguel Castro Abril

10097: Labor Market Adjustment to Import Competition: Long-Run Evidence from Establishment Data

Juan Blyde, Matias Busso and Dario Romero

10096: Revisiting the Effect of the Great Liberalization on the Growth of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1980-2010

Federico Merchán and Mauricio Moreira

10091: Tax Buoyancy in the Caribbean: Evidence from Heterogenous Panel Cointegration Models

Jeetendra Khadan

10078: Competitive Equilibrium and Optimal Capacity Matrix in Electricity Markets with Renewables

Rodrigo Moita and Daniel Monte

10069: Unbundling Returns to Degrees and Skills: Evidence from Postsecondary Education in Colombia

Matias Busso, Juan Munoz-Morales and Sebastián Montaño

10057: Who's Calling?: The Effect of Phone Calls and Personal Interaction on Tax Compliance

Monica Mogollon Plazas, Daniel Ortega and Carlos Scartascini

10055: The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru

Philip Keefer, Mauricio Espinoza Hermoza, Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort

10053: Simulaciones del costo de un sistema de apoyo para los adultos mayores en situación de dependencia en México

César Alfredo González-González, Marco Stampini, Gianluca Cafagna, M. Carmen Hernández Ruiz and Pablo Ibarrarán

10036: The Impact of Import Competition from China on Firm Performance in the Peruvian Manufacturing Sector

Eduardo Mercado, Martha Denisse Pierola and Dennis Sánchez-Navarro

10035: Import Competition in the Manufacturing Sector in Peru: Its Impact on Informality and Wages

Martha Denisse Pierola and Dennis Sánchez-Navarro

10034: Remedial Education: Evidence from a Sequence of Experiments in Colombia

Horacio Álvarez Marinelli, Samuel Berlinski and Matias Busso

10031: Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government

Philip Keefer, Carlos Scartascini and Razvan Vlaicu

10030: Luz para las comunidades de la Chiquitania: Los beneficios de la electrificación rural con energía renovable en Bolivia

Sergio Ballón, Soraya Roman, Katherine Antonio, Carlos Foronda, David Lopez, Wilkferg Vanegas and Michelle Carvalho Metanias Hallack

10021: Real Exchange Rates and Primary Commodity Prices

Joao Ayres, Constantino Hevia and Juan Pablo Nicolini

10014: Targeting Credit through Community Members

Diego A. Vera-Cossio

10005: Can Financial Incentives Help Disadvantaged Schools to Attract and Retain High-performing Teachers?: Evidence from Chile

Gregory Elacqua, Diana Hincapie, Isabel Hincapié and Veronica Montalva

10000: The Heterogeneous Impacts of Import Competition on Mexican Manufacturing Plants

Juan Blyde and Oscar Fentanes

9999: The Impact of the China Shock on the Manufacturing Labor Market in Brazil

Lourenco Paz