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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

8939: Does Rewarding Pedagogical Excellence Keep Teachers in the Classroom?: Evidence from a Voluntary Award Program

Samuel Berlinski

8929: Competition-Adjusted Measures of Real Exchanges Rates

Ernesto Stein and Andrés Fernández Martin

8911: The Time-Varying Degree of Inflation Expectation Anchoring in Bolivia

Mauricio Mora Barrenechea, Juan Heredia Gómez and David Zeballos

8886: Committed Emissions from Existing and Planned Power Plants and Asset Stranding Required to Meet the Paris Agreement

Alexander Pfeiffer, Cameron Hepburn, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Ben Caldecott

8869: Tailoring Instruction to Improve Mathematics Skills in Preschools: A Randomized Evaluation

Francisco Gallego, Emma Naslund-Hadley and Mariana Alfonso

8860: The Connectivity Frontier

Joan Oriol Prats Cabrera and Juan Andrés Páez

8857: Economic Cycle and Deceleration of Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America

Joaquín Serrano, Leonardo Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni and Pablo Gluzmann

8835: The Impact of School-Based Financial Education on High School Students and their Teachers: Experimental Evidence from Peru

Veronica Frisancho

8823: Civic Engagement in the Americas

Carlos Scartascini and Razvan Vlaicu

8809: When Starting with the Most Expensive Option Makes Sense: Optimal Timing, Cost and Sectoral Allocation of Abatement Investment

Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Guy Meunier and Stephane Hallegatte

8808: Unraveling the Threads of Decentralized Community-Based Irrigation Systems in Bolivia

Lina Salazar and Cesar Lopez

8778: El efecto de la educación en las actitudes de género: Evidencia experimental en educación secundaria en El Salvador

Rosangela Bando, Nidia Hidalgo and Austin Land

8777: ¿Se mejora la escolaridad con becas de mayor monto?: La evidencia de las localidades urbanas de México

M. Caridad Araujo, Sebastian Martinez, María Adelaida Martínez, Michelle Pérez and Mario Sanchez

8767: How Effective is Energy-efficient Housing?: Evidence From a Field Experiment in Mexico

Lucas Davis, Sebastian Martinez and Bibiana Taboada

8764: An Integrated Analysis of the Impact of Gender Diversity on Innovation and Productivity in Manufacturing Firms

Juan Gallego and Luis Gutiérrez

8752: Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments

Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi and Santiago Levy Algazi

8750: Is Results-Based Aid More Effective than Conventional Aid?: Evidence from the Health Sector in El Salvador

Pedro Bernal Lara, Sebastian Martinez and Pablo Celhay

8746: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Career Choices for Young Workers in Latin America

Graciana Rucci and Sergio Urzua

8707: Transparencia dinámica: Una auditoría de la Ley de Libertad de Información de México

Paul Lagunes and Oscar Pocasangre

8706: Saving Rates in Latin America: A Neoclassical Perspective

Andrés Fernández Martin, Ayse Imrohoroglu and Juan Pablo Rud

8705: ¿Por qué allí?: Los motivos por los que promotores privados de vivienda social construyen en las periferias de las ciudades de América Latina

Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren

8697: Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration for Productive Development Policies

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Charles Sabel, Ernesto Stein and Alberto Trejos

8696: Misreporting in Sensitive Health Behaviors and Its Impact on Treatment Effects: An Application to Intimate Partner Violence

Jorge Agüero and Veronica Frisancho

8691: The Effects of Natural Disasters on the Labour Market: Do Hurricanes Increase Informality?

Camilo Pecha G

8679: Indicador de eficiencia recaudatoria del impuesto al valor agregado y del impuesto a la renta de Ecuador

José Ramírez and Paul A. Carrillo Maldonado

8676: Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship and their Macroeconomic Effects in Latin America

Marc Teignier and David Cuberes

8661: The On-the-Job Training Decision in Latin America

Juan Eberhard, Gabriel Moraga, Eleonora Nun and Aldo Madariaga

8660: Construyendo capacidades institucionales para implementar PDP: El caso de las políticas de promoción del diseño en la Argentina

Mariana Chudnovsky, Andrea Gonzalez, Juan Hallak and Mercedes Sidders

8659: Construyendo capacidades institucionales de programas de desarrollo productivo: Evidencia de tres casos de estudio de Argentina

Lucio Castro and Paula Szenkman

8651: BID UrbanLab: Concurso universitario: Segunda edición internacional

Ramiro Lopez-Ghio, Juan Pablo López Gross and Natalia López Aguilar

8590: Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement

Seth Benzell

8589: Capital Openness and Income Inequality: Smooth Sailing or Troubled Waters?

Kevin Gallagher, Guillermo LaGarda and Jennifer Linares

8588: Sugar With Your Coffee?: Financials, Fundamentals, and Soft Price Uncertainty

Genevre Covindassamy, Michel Robe and Jonathan Wallen

8575: A Quantitative Assessment of Strategies to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: An Application to Guatemala

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez, Mark Horridge and Renato Vargas

8572: Fixed or Open-Ended?: Labor Contracts and Productivity in the Colombian Manufacturing Sector

Francesca Castellani, Giulia Lotti and Nataly Obando

8563: The Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being

Rosangela Bando, Sebastian Galiani and Paul Gertler

8559: The Cyclicality of International Public Sector Borrowing in Developing Countries: Does the Lender Matter?

Ugo Panizza

8558: Current Expenditure Upswings in Good Times and Capital Expenditure Downswings in Bad Times?: New Evidence from Developing Countries

Martin Ardanaz and Alejandro Izquierdo

8551: Dynamic Transparency: An Audit of Mexico’s Freedom of Information Act

Paul Lagunes and Oscar Pocasangre

8543: The Effects of Weather Shocks on Early Childhood Development

Diether Beuermann, Camilo Pecha G and Juan Pedro Schmid

8531: Reconciliation Once and for All: Economic Impact Evaluation and Social Cost Benefit Analysis

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez and Adela Moreda

8528: Domestic Antidotes to Sudden Stops

Eduardo Cavallo, Alejandro Izquierdo and John León-Díaz

8514: Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean?: Theory and Policy Considerations

Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani and Pablo Ibarraran

8510: Impact Evaluation of a Cluster Program: An Application of Synthetic Control Methods

Diego Aboal, Gustavo Crespi and Marcelo Perera

8509: The Effect of Welfare Payments on Work in a Middle-Income Country

Mariano Bosch, Norbert Schady and M. Caridad Araujo

8508: Making International Financial Integration Work for Low-Saving Countries

Eduardo Cavallo, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Matías Marzani

8504: Mejores prácticas internacionales de fondeo y financiamiento para el transporte público urbano

Amado Crotte Alvarado, Carina Arvizu, Alejandro Pablo Taddia and Esteban Diez-Roux

8500: Gestionando el riesgo: Efectos de la gobernabilidad en las pérdidas humanas por desastres en América Latina y el Caribe

Roberto Guerrero Compeán, Lina Salazar and Sergio Lacambra Ayuso

8498: Pathways toward Zero-Carbon Electricity Required for Climate Stabilization

Richard Audoly, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Céline Guivarch and Alexander Pfeiffer

8491: The Consequences of Educational Voucher Reform in Chile

María Soledad Bos and Emiliana Vegas

8488: Financial Conditions Indicator for Brazil

Wagner Gaglianone and Waldyr Areosa

8475: Paying Patients for Prenatal Care: The Effect of a Small Cash Transfer on Stillbirths and Survival

Sebastian Martinez, Pablo Celhay, Cecilia Vidal and Julia Johannsen

8445: Do Tests Applied to Teachers Predict their Effectiveness?

Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Pablo Ibarraran and Norbert Schady

8424: Are Blackout Days Free of Charge?: Valuation of Individual Preferences for Improved Electricity Services

Raul Jimenez Mori

8423: Boosting Tourism's Contribution to Growth and Development: Analysis of Evidence

Martín Cicowiez, Onil Banerjee and Emily Morris

8417: La carga de la vivienda de interés social: Comparación entre hogares de la periferia y del centro en ciudades de Brasil, Colombia y México

Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren

8368: Bankruptcy Choice with Endogenous Financial Constraints

Juan Pablo Rud

8332: Understanding Financial Fluctuations and Their Relation to Macroeconomic Stability

Nora Guarata and Carolina Pagliacci

8317: Climate Policies and Nationally Determined Contributions: Reconciling the Needed Ambition with the Political Economy

Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Stephane Hallegatte

8315: World Shocks, World Prices, and Business Cycles: An Empirical Investigation

Andrés Fernández Martin, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

8311: Retaking in High Stakes Exams: Is Less More?

Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin and Veronica Frisancho

8283: Credit and Saving Constraints in General Equilibrium: Evidence from Survey Data

Catalina Granda-Carvajal, Franz Hamann and Juan Pablo Rud

8275: Financial Conditions and Monetary Policy in Uruguay: An MS-VAR Approach

Elizabeth Bucacos

8272: Where the Girls Are Not: Households, Teachers, and the Gender Gap in Early Math Achievement

Norbert Schady, Pedro Carneiro and Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo

8269: What are the Fiscal Limits for the Developing Economies of Central America and the Caribbean?

Allan Wright and Francisco Ramírez de León

8268: Credit Risks and Monetary Policy within Caribbean Economies

Rumile Arana, Francisco Ramírez de León and Allan Wright

8260: Quality Management System and Firm Performance in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Colombian Manufacturing Industries

Juan Gallego and Luis Gutiérrez

8259: Agricultural Input Subsidies and Productivity: The Case of Paraguayan Farmers

Cesar Lopez, Lina Salazar and Carmine Paolo De Salvo

8256: Credit Supply in Venezuela: A Non-Conventional Bank Lending Channel?

Ana María Chirinos-Leañez and Carolina Pagliacci

8253: Understanding the Drivers of Household Energy Spending: Micro Evidence for Latin America

Raul Jimenez Mori and Ariel Yépez-García

8248: Inequality, Crime, and the Long-Run Legacy of Slavery

Paolo Buonanno and Juan Vargas

8246: Do Rewards Work?: Evidence from the Randomization of Public Works

Paul Carrillo, Edgar Castro and Carlos Scartascini

8244: Glass Ceiling in Research: Evidence from a National Program in Uruguay

Daniel Bukstein and Nestor Gandelman

8243: Gender Gaps and Scientific Productivity in Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Mexico

Lorena Rivera León, Jacques Mairesse and Robin Cowan

8236: Organizational Efficency or Bureaucratic Quagmire: Do Quality at Entry Assessments Improve Project Performance?

Leonardo Corral and Nancy McCarthy

8220: Ageing Poorly?: Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012

Francisco Ferreira, Sergio Firpo and Julian Messina

8219: Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America

Manuel Fernandez Sierra and Julian Messina

8216: In-Firm Training, Innovation and Productivity: The Case of Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Preeya Mohan, Eric Strobl and Patrick Watson

8215: Stylized Facts about the Quantity and Quality of Parental Time Investments on the Skill Formation of Their Children

Javier Torres and Jorge Agüero

8212: Household Education Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Income and Expenditure Surveys

Santiago Acerenza and Nestor Gandelman

8209: Patterns, Trends and Policy Implications of Private Spending on Skills Development in Mexico and the United States

Miguel Székely and Pamela Mendoza

8208: Fiscal Rules: Towards a New Paradigm for Fiscal Sustainability in Small States

Allan Wright, Kari Grenade and Ankie Scott-Joseph

8206: Capital Requirements, Risk-Taking and Welfare in a Growing Economy

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva

8205: Instrument Choice and Stranded Assets in the Transition to Clean Capital

Julie Rozenberg, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Stephane Hallegatte

8191: Corporate Currency Risk and Hedging in Chile: Real and Financial Effects

Roberto Alvarez and Erwin Hansen

8177: Transportation and Trade Interactions: A Trade Facilitation Perspective

Jeronimo Carballo, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus

8166: Accelerating Digital Trade in Latin America and the Caribbean

Kati Suominen

8163: Impact of Latin-American and Caribbean Antidumping Measures on Chinese Exports

Yan Zhang

8154: Child Care Quality and Child Development

M. Caridad Araujo, Marta Dormal and Norbert Schady

8122: Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Inter-Generational Poverty Trap?

M. Caridad Araujo, Mariano Bosch and Norbert Schady