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9992: Income Inequality in Mexico and Import Exposure: Estimating the Impacts from the Expenditure Channel

Juan Blyde

9984: Dependence or Constraints?: Labor Supply Responses from a Cash Transfer Program

Diego A. Vera-Cossio

9979: The Effects of the Chilean School Accountability System on Teacher Turnover

Gregory Elacqua, Diana Hincapie and Matias Martínez

9971: The Effect of Chinese Import Competition on El Salvador’s Labor Market

Kun Li and Mauricio Moreira

9970: China Import Competition and El Salvador Manufacturing Firm Performance

Kun Li and Mauricio Moreira

9967: Monitoring Public Investment: The Impact of MapaRegalías in Colombia

Maximiliano Lauletta, Martín Rossi, Juan Cruz Vieyra and Diego Arisi

9964: Evolución del PIB departamental y análisis de la desigualdad regional en el Perú: 1795-2017

Bruno Seminario, Maria Alejandra Zegarra and Luis Palomino

9963: Local Labor-Market Effects of NAFTA in Mexico: Evidence from Mexican Commuting Zones

Danielle Trachtenberg

9961: Trade and Real Wages of the Rich and Poor: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico

Zheli He

9943: The Effects of Accountability on the Allocation of School Resources: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Chile

Gregory Elacqua, Analia Jaimovich and Alonso Román

9942: Teachers' Preferences for Proximity and the Implications for Staffing Schools: Evidence from Peru

Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Diana Hincapie, Carolina Méndez and Diana Paredes

9938: Export Diversification Through Public Investment in Cultural Tourism: Insights from a Multi-Regional Model of Bolivia

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez and Adela Moreda

9933: Tight Money-Tight Credit: Coordination Failure in the Conduct of Monetary and Financial Policies

Julio Carrillo, Victoria Nuguer, Enrique Mendoza and Jessica Roldán-Peña

9920: Training and Labor Adjustment to Trade

Juan Blyde, Jose Claudio Pires, Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc and Nathaniel Russell

9914: Active Labor Market Policies in a Context of High Informality: The Effect of PAE in Bolivia

Rafael Novella and Horacio Valencia

9908: An Anatomy of External Shocks in the Andean Region

Paul A. Carrillo Maldonado and Javier Díaz Cassou

9891: The Impact of Decentralized Decision Making on Student Outcomes and Teacher Quality: Evidence from Colombia

Gregory Elacqua, Isabela Munevar, Fabio Sanchez Torres and Humberto Santos

9890: Does Technical Education Improve Academic Outcomes?: Evidence from Brazil

Gregory Elacqua, Patricia Navarro-Palau, María Fernanda Prada and Sammara Soares

9889: A Surrogate Video-Based Safety Methodology for Diagnosis and Evaluation of Low-Cost Pedestrian-Safety Countermeasures: The Case of Cochabamba, Bolivia

Lynn Scholl, Mohamed Elagaty, Bismarck Ledezma-Navarro, Edgar Zamora and Luis Miranda-Moreno

9888: Do Multiple School Jobs Affect Teacher Performance?: Evidence from Brazil

Gregory Elacqua and Luana Marotta

9886: The Gender Labor Market Gap in the Digital Economy

Monserrat Bustelo, Luca Flabbi and Mariana Viollaz

9883: Cash Transfers for Pro-poor Carbon Taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean

Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Brian Walsh, Kuishuang Feng, Laura Di Capua, Yu Liu, Daniela Zuluaga, Marcos Robles and Klaus Hubacek

9877: Identifying and Disentangling the Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Economic Growth

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Bauyrzhan Yedgenov

9868: Productivity and Efficiency in Grassland-based Livestock Production in Latin America: The Cases of Uruguay and Paraguay

Alejandro Nin Pratt, Heber Freiría and Gonzalo Muñoz

9827: Reducing Air Pollution through Behavioral Change of Wood-Stove Users: Evidence from an RCT in Valdivia, Chile

Cristóbal Ruiz-Tagle V. and Alejandra Schueftan

9823: Productivity, Misallocation, and Special Tax Regimes in the Dominican Republic

Rodrigo Azuero, Mariano Bosch, Marvin Cardoza and Dennis Sánchez-Navarro

9816: Tariff Schemes and Regulations: What Changes are Needed in the Mexican Residential Electricity Sector to Support Efficient Adoption of Green Technologies?

Pedro Hancevic, Héctor Núñez and Juan Rosellon

9809: The Impact of Financial Education for Youth

Veronica Frisancho

9786: Cost-Effective Public Daycare in a Low-Income Economy Benefits Children and Mothers

Florencia Lopez Boo and Andrés Hojman

9785: School Reorganization Reforms: The Case of School Networks in Colombia

Gregory Elacqua, Fabio Sanchez Torres and Humberto Santos

9780: Smart Development Banks

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Ricardo Hausmann and Ugo Panizza

9765: Are We Nearly There Yet?: New Technology Adoption and Labor Demand in Peru

Rafael Novella, David Rosas-Shady and Alfredo Alvarado Enciso

9757: What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell?: Evidence on The Multidimensionality of School Output

Diether Beuermann, C. Kirabo Jackson, Laia Navarro-Sola and Francisco Pardo

9747: Fiscal Consolidations and Electoral Outcomes in Emerging Economies: Does the Policy Mix Matter?: Macro and Micro Level Evidence from Latin America

Martin Ardanaz, Mark Hallerberg and Carlos Scartascini

9741: International Capital Flow Reversals

Eduardo Cavallo

9734: Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America

Julian Messina and Joana Silva

9724: Educación financiera y previsional a través del taller Ahorra desde Ahora: Evidencia de una evaluación de impacto en Chile

Mariano Bosch, Gustavo Caballero Orozco, Fabián Cofré, Stephanie González, Lukas Keller and María Teresa Silva Porto

9718: Increasing Retirement Savings through Access Points and Persuasive Messages: Evidence from Mexico

Mariano Bosch and Adrian Rubli

9697: Does Gamification in Education Work?: Experimental Evidence from Chile

Roberto Araya, Elena Arias Ortiz, Nicolas Bottan and Julian Cristia

9688: Demand-Driven Training and Job Turnover: The Effects of Brazil’s Pronatec-MDIC at Firm and Worker Level

Rodrigo Quintana and Túlio Cravo

9685: Fiscal Sustainability in the Caribbean: An Econometric Analysis

Jeetendra Khadan

9678: Blue-Collar Crime and Finance

Alejandro Bernales, Diether Beuermann, Douglas Cumming and Christian Olid

9674: Can Government Transfers Make Energy Subsidy Reform Socially Acceptable?: A Case Study on Ecuador

Filip Schaffitzel, Michael Jakob, Rafael Soria, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Hauke Ward

9671: Direct and Spillover Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Julián Aramburu, Lucas Figal Garone, Alessandro Maffioli, Lina Salazar and Cesar Lopez

9656: Wage Inequality in Latin America: Learning from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra, Graciana Rucci, Fernando Saltiel and Sergio Urzua

9647: Training, Soft Skills and Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Retail

Maria Prada, Graciana Rucci and Sergio Urzua

9639: Crime Time: How Ambient Light Affects Crime

Patricio Domínguez and Kenzo Asahi

9610: The Importance of Clarity: Impacts of Colombia’s 'Lenguaje Claro' Program on Reducing Administrative Burdens

Ana María Cuesta, Angela Reyes and Benjamin Roseth

9603: Trade Attitudes in Latin America: Evidence from a Multi-Country Survey Experiment

Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc, Ernesto Stein and Razvan Vlaicu

9602: The Monetary and Fiscal History of Brazil, 1960-2016

Joao Ayres, Marcio Garcia, Diogo Guillen and Patrick Kehoe

9600: The Long-Term Impacts of Honduras’ CCT Program: Higher Education and International Migration

Teresa Molina-Millan, Karen Macours, John Maluccio and Luis Tejerina

9569: The Intensive Margin in Trade

Ana Fernandes, Peter J. Klenow, Sergii Meleshchuk, Martha Denisse Pierola and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

9558: A CLEWS Nexus Modeling Approach to Assess Water Security Trajectories and Infrastructure Needs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Raúl Muñoz Castillo and Kleber Machado

9551: Better Together?: The Effects of Integrated Social Services for Women

Monserrat Bustelo, Sebastian Martinez, Michelle Pérez and Julio Rodríguez

9546: Who Suffers During Recessions in Brazil?

Túlio Cravo and Caroline Schimanski

9520: Partial Identification of Population Average and Quantile Treatment Effects in Observational Data under Sample Selection

Dimitris Christelis and Julian Messina

9511: Special Tax Regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Compliance, Social Protection, and Resource Misallocation

Oliver Azuara, Rodrigo Azuero, Mariano Bosch and Jesica Torres

9509: The Effect of Job Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil

Christopher O'Leary, Túlio Cravo, Ana Cristina Sierra and Leandro Justino

9501: The Effects of School Based Financial Education

Veronica Frisancho

9496: Transparency and Trust in Government: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Martín Alessandro, Bruno Cardinale Lagomarsino, Carlos Scartascini and Jerónimo Torrealday

9491: Public Financial Management, Health Financing and Under-Five Mortality: A Comparative Empirical Analysis

Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen and Lodewijk Smets

9464: Innovation, Productivity, and Spillover Effects: Evidence from Chile

Gustavo Crespi, Lucas Figal Garone, Alessandro Maffioli and Ernesto Stein

9452: A Rapid Road to Employment?: The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima

Lynn Scholl, Daniel Martínez, Oscar Mitnik, Daniel Oviedo and Patricia Yanez-Pagans

9451: Do Bus Rapid Transit Systems Improve Accessibility to Jobs?: The Case of Lima, Peru

Lynn Scholl, Daniel Oviedo, Marco Innao and Lauramaría Pedraza

9447: A Heavy Hand or a Helping Hand? Information Provision and Citizen Preferences for Anti-Crime Policies

Daniel Gingerich and Carlos Scartascini

9420: Female Labor Force Participation, Labor Market Dynamic and Growth in LAC

Monserrat Bustelo, Luca Flabbi, Claudia Piras and Mauricio Tejada

9351: Livestock Transfers, Food Security and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from a Randomized Phased-in Program in Nicaragua

Lina Salazar, Jossie Fahsbender and Namho Kim

9342: Sovereign External Borrowing and Multilateral Lending: Dynamics and Crises

Giulia Lotti, Leopoldo Avellan and Arturo Galindo

9317: Educación y desarrollo en México: Una historia de baja capacidad de aprovechamiento del capital humano

Miguel Székely

9293: Compliance Spillovers across Taxes: The Role of Penalties and Detection

Andrea Lopez-Luzuriaga and Carlos Scartascini

9265: Cash, Conditions and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras

Florencia Lopez Boo

9257: Do Children Benefit from Internet Access?: Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

Ofer Malamud, Santiago Cueto, Julian Cristia and Diether Beuermann

9246: Employment Cyclicality by Firm Size, Wage and Productivity in Brazil

Túlio Cravo, Paulo Jacinto and Caroline Schimanski

9237: Race-based Educational, Occupational and Industry Segregation and Wages Gaps in Trinidad and Tobago

Caroline Schimanski, Cristian Chagalj and Inder Ruprah

9207: Why Does the Peso-Dollar Exchange Rate Show a Depreciation Trend?: The Role of Productivity Differentials

Arnoldo Lopez Marmolejo and Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària

9205: Quality of Parenting Programs and Child Development Outcomes: The Case of Peru's Cuna Mas

M. Caridad Araujo, Marta Rubio-Codina and Marta Dormal

9204: Crime and Government Expenditure in Brazil: Estimating the Impact of Government Security Spending on Homicide Rates

Camila Rodrigues Gomes

9162: Management and Execution of Investment Projects, the Task Prior to the Measurement of Development Effectiveness: The Case of the Inter-American Development Bank

Guillermo LaGarda, Jennifer Linares, Arnoldo Lopez Marmolejo and Osmel Manzano Mazzali

9159: Managing the Distributional Effects of Energy Taxes and Subsidy Removal in Latin America and the Caribbean

Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, Yu Liu, Estefanía Marchán and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

9124: Teacher Policies, Incentives, and Labor Markets in Chile, Colombia, and Peru: Implications for Equality

Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Analia Jaimovich, Julio Rodríguez and Humberto Santos

9120: The Economic and Ecological Impact of Natural Resource Extraction: The Case of the Camisea Gas Project in Peru

Leonardo Corral and Maja Schling

9118: Inmigración en Panamá: ¿Complemento o sustituto?

Jennifer Linares and Miguel Székely

9094: Rural Land Titling and Property Rights: Does Legislating Smallholdings as a Non-Seizable Family Asset Improve Smallholder Family Farmers’ Welfare?

Juan M. Murguia, Kassu W. Hossiso and Sergio Lence

9083: Do Parents Know Best?: The Short and Long-Run Effects of Attending The Schools that Parents Prefer

Diether Beuermann and C. Kirabo Jackson

9076: Social Interactions and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay: The Role of Urbanization Patterns on the Effectiveness of GOVT Campaigns

Alberto Chong, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta, Vivian Roza, Martín Valdivia and Gabriela Vega

9075: Mothers, Teachers, Peers, and the Gender Gap in Early Math Achievement

Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo and Norbert Schady

9061: Price Dynamics and the Financing Structure of Firms in Emerging Economies

Victoria Nuguer, Andrés González Gómez, Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro and Jessica Roldán-Peña

9059: Measuring Quality and Characterizing Cuna Mas Home Visits: Validation of the HOVRS-A+2 in Peru and of a Short Checklist for Use At-Scale

M. Caridad Araujo, Marta Rubio-Codina and Marta Dormal

9055: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Cultural Tourism: Evidence from the Colonial City of Santo Domingo

Onil Banerjee, Mercedes Velasco, Hélène Maisonnave, Lulit Mitik Beyene and Martin Henseler

9054: Evaluation of Inflation Forecasting Models in Guatemala

Juan Carlos Castañeda-Fuentes, Hector Valle, Juan Carlos Catalán-Herrera, Juan Carlos Arriaza-Herrera, José Gutiérrez-Morales, Carlos Castillo-Maldonado, Douglas Napoleón Galindo-Gonzáles, Guisela Hurtarte-Aguilar and Edson Roger Ortiz-Cardona

9053: Forecasting Inflation Expectations from the CESifo World Economic Survey: An Empirical Application in Inflation Targeting

Hector Zarate-Solano and Daniel R. Zapata-Sanabria

9035: MIDAS Modeling for Core Inflation Forecasting

Luis Libonatti

9027: Creation and Evolution of Inflation Expectations in Paraguay

Pablo Alonso

9025: Fiscal Policy and Inflation: Understanding the Role of Expectations in Mexico

Bernabe Lopez-Martin, Alberto Ramirez de Aguilar and Daniel Samano

9019: Gender-based Educational and Occupational Segregation in the Caribbean

Inder Ruprah, Caroline Schimanski and Cristian Chagalj

8980: Do Labor Market Regulations Affect the Link between Innovation and Employment?: Evidence from Latin America

Laura Baensch, María Laura Lanzalot, Giulia Lotti and Rodolfo Stucchi

8961: Energy-Water-Land Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Perspective from the Paris Agreement Climate Mitigation Pledges

Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm and Raúl Muñoz Castillo

8948: Six Years of Comunidades Solidarias Rurales: Impacts on School Entry of an Ongoing Conditional Cash Transfer Program in El Salvador

Ana Sánchez Chico, Karen Macours, John Maluccio and Marco Stampini

8941: Extraction of Inflation Expectations from Financial Instruments

Alberto Fuertes, Ricardo Gimeno and José Manuel Marqués

8940: Forecasting Inflation in Argentina

Lorena Garegnani and Maximiliano Gómez Aguirre