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8115: How Much Has the Game Changed?: Revisiting Policymaking in Latin America a Decade Later

Mark P. Jones

8114: Certificación internacional de calidad: ¿Señalizando a quién?: Impacto en el desempeño de empresas en Argentina

Federico Bernini, Lucas Figal Garone and Alessandro Maffioli

8107: Formal Saving in Developing Economies: Barriers, Interventions, and Effects

Sonia Di Giannatale and María Roa García

8081: From Debt Collection to Relief Provision: 60 Years of Official Debt Restructurings through the Paris Club

Gong Cheng, Javier Díaz Cassou and Aitor Erce

8066: Examination of the Peruvian Anchovy Individual Vessel Quota (IVQ) System

Kailin Kroetz, James Sanchirico, Elsa Galarza Contreras, David Corderi, Nestor Collado and Elaine W. Swiedler

8039: Macroeconomic Fluctuations Under Natural Disaster Shocks in Central America and the Caribbean

Allan Wright and Patrice Borda

8036: The Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling Framework: An Illustration with Guatemala's Forest and Fuelwood Sectors

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez, Renato Vargas and Mark Horridge

8025: An Econometric Analysis of Energy Revenue and Government Expenditure Shocks on Economic Growth in Trinidad and Tobago

Jeetendra Khadan

8020: Learning from Productive Development Agencies in Brazil: Policies for Technological Innovation

Paulo Azevedo, Maria Sylvia Saes, Paula Sarita Bigio Schneider, Thiago Bernardino de Carvalho, Andresa Silva Neto Francischini, Synthia Kariny Silva de Santana and Maria Clara de Azevedo Morgulis

8017: Building Public Capabilities for Productive Development Policies: Costa Rican Case Studies

Jorge Cornick and Alberto Trejos

8016: Generación de empleo e innovación en Argentina: Un abordaje microeconométrico para el período 2010-2012

Mariano Pereira and Ezequiel Tacsir

8015: Asistencias técnicas y competitividad de las MiPyMEs: Evidencia para Argentina

Victoria Castillo, Lucas Figal Garone, Alessandro Maffioli and Moira Ohaco

7970: Healthy to Work: The Impact of Free Public Healthcare on Health Status and Labor Supply in Jamaica

Diether Beuermann and Camilo Pecha

7969: ¿Qué capacidades requieren las nuevas políticas de innovación y cambio estructural en Uruguay?

Carlos Bianchi, Lucía Pittaluga and Guillermo Fuentes

7968: Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Matteo Bobba and Veronica Frisancho

7947: The Origins and Dynamics of Export Superstars

Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

7937: The Effects of Financial Aid and Returns Information in Selective and Less Selective Schools: Experimental Evidence from Chile

Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman, Claudia Martínez A. and Dario Romero

7936: Balance Sheet Effects in Colombian Non-Financial Firms

Adolfo Barajas, Sergio Restrepo-Ángel, Roberto Steiner, Juan Medellín and César Pabón

7891: Long-term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: Review of the Evidence

Teresa Molina-Millan, Tania Barham, Karen Macours, John Maluccio and Marco Stampini

7887: Trade, Economic and Welfare Impacts of the CARICOM-Canada Free Trade Agreement

Jeetendra Khadan and Roger Hosein

7873: Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt

Ishac Diwan, Philip Keefer and Marc Schiffbauer

7862: Do Non-Monetary Prices Target the Poor?: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India

Bridget Hoffmann

7861: The Effect of Non-contributory Pensions on Saving in Mexico

Jorge Alonso, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Laura Juarez

7860: The Impact of Coastal Infrastructure Improvements on Economic Growth: Evidence from Barbados

Leonardo Corral, Maja Schling, Cassandra Rogers, Janice Cumberbatch, Fabian Hinds, Naijun Zhou and Michele H. Lemay

7849: A Retrospective Stated Preference Approach to Assessment of Coastal Infrastructure Investments: An Application to Barbados

Onil Banerjee, Kevin Boyle, Cassandra Rogers, Janice Cumberbatch, Barbara Kanninen, Michele H. Lemay and Maja Schling

7839: Public Expenditures and the Performance of Latin American and Caribbean Agriculture

Gustavo Anríquez, William Foster, Jorge Ortega, César Falconi and Carmine Paolo De Salvo

7832: Conditional Cash Transfers and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Urban Mexico

Maria Heracleous, Mario González Flores and Paul Winters

7831: It is Mainly About Where You Work!: Labor Demand in the Colombian Manufacturing Sector

Luis Arango Thomas, Francesca Castellani and Nataly Obando

7823: Concurrent Validity and Feasibility of Short Tests Currently Used to Measure Early Childhood Development in Large Scale Studies: Methodology and Results

Marta Rubio-Codina, M. Caridad Araujo, Orazio P. Attanasio and Sally Grantham-McGregor

7808: Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-emotional Skills in Early Childhood

Rosangela Bando, Florencia Lopez Boo and Xia Li

7805: Bond Finance, Bank Credit, and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Open Economy

Roberto Chang, Andrés Fernández Martin and Adam Gulan

7798: Composition and Sensitivity of Residential Energy Consumption

Raul Jimenez Mori and Ariel Yépez-García

7793: On Corporate Borrowing, Credit Spreads and Economic Activity in Emerging Economies: An Empirical Investigation

Julian Caballero, Andrés Fernández Martin and Jongho Park

7792: Can Countries Rely on Foreign Saving for Investment and Economic Development?

Eduardo Cavallo, Barry Eichengreen and Ugo Panizza

7791: Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America

Luca Gambetti and Julian Messina

7788: Early Childhood Development: Wealth, the Nurturing Environment and Inequality First Results from the PRIDI Database

Aimee Verdisco, Santiago Cueto and Jennelle Thompson

7787: ¿Demanda insuficiente o insatisfecha?: El caso de un programa municipal de provisión de guarderías en Chile

Maria Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Diaz and Javiera Vásquez

7779: Exchange Rate Pass-through in South America: An Overview

Eduardo Borensztein and Virginia Queijo Von Heideken

7775: Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited

Marek Hanusch, Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

7758: Democracy Does Not Cause Growth: The Importance of Endogeneity Arguments

Julia Ruiz Pozuelo, Amy Slipowitz and Guillermo Vuletin

7750: Motivation, Resources and the Organization of the School System

Facundo Albornoz, Samuel Berlinski and Antonio Cabrales

7745: The Impact of Business Support Services for Small and Medium Enterprises on Firm Performance in Low -and Middle- Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis

Túlio Cravo and Caio Piza

7731: Pollution or Crime: The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Criminal Activity

Paul Carrillo, Andrea López and Arun Malik

7730: Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying

Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer and Julien Labonne

7702: Crime Concentration and Hot Spot Dynamics in Latin America

Nicolas Ajzenman and Laura Jaitman

7691: The Border Labyrinth: Information Technologies and Trade in the Presence of Multiple Agencies

Jeronimo Carballo, Alejandro Graziano, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus

7689: Customs

Christian Volpe Martincus, Jeronimo Carballo and Alejandro Graziano

7688: Transit Trade

Jeronimo Carballo, Georg Schaur, Alejandro Graziano and Christian Volpe Martincus

7686: Multilateral Development Bank Ratings and Preferred Creditor Status

William Perraudin, Andrew Powell and Peng Yang

7685: Endogenous Border Times

Jeronimo Carballo, Alejandro Graziano, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus

7684: Trust No One?: Security and International Trade

Jeronimo Carballo, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus

7681: Posts as Trade Facilitators

Jeronimo Carballo, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus

7656: Under the "Cloak of Invisibility": Gender Bias in Teaching Practices and Learning Outcomes

Marina Bassi, Rae Lesser Blumberg and Maria Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Diaz

7654: Temperature and Growth: A Panel Analysis of the United States

Riccardo Colacito, Bridget Hoffmann and Toan Phan

7638: The Second Wave of Global Liquidity: Why Are Firms Acting Like Financial Intermediaries?

Julian Caballero, Ugo Panizza and Andrew Powell

7637: Money for Wine?: Complementarities in the Provision of Private and Public Goods to Wine Producers

María Gibbons, Alessandro Maffioli and Martín Rossi

7619: Cyclically Adjusted Provisions and Financial Stability

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva

7615: Impact Evaluation of the Job Youth Training Program Projoven

Juan Jose Diaz and David Rosas-Shady

7613: The Productivity Gap in Latin America: Lessons from 50 Years of Development

Sergio Rodríguez-Apolinar and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

7579: Gone with the Wind: Demographic Transitions and Domestic Saving

Eduardo Cavallo, Gabriel Sanchez and Patricio Valenzuela

7572: When the Victor Cannot Claim the Spoils: Institutional Incentives for Professionalizing Patronage States

Christian Schuster

7566: The Challenge of Public Capabilities for Successful Productive Development Policies: Hopeless Task or Pragmatic Program?

Jorge Cornick, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Ernesto Stein

7557: Sex, Violence, and Drugs Among Latin American and Caribbean Adolescents: Do Engaged Parents Make a Difference?

Inder Ruprah, Ricardo Sierra and Heather Sutton

7545: Do Longer School Days Improve Student Achievement?: Evidence from Colombia

Diana Hincapie

7520: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Development Impact of Windfall Gains: The Camisea Fund in Peru

Leonardo Corral, Heath Henderson and Juan Jose Miranda

7511: In Search of Larger Per Capita Incomes: How To Prioritize across Productivity Determinants?

Alejandro Izquierdo, Jimena Llopis, Umberto Muratori and José Juan Ruiz

7510: Climate Change and Migration: A CGE Analysis for Two Large Urban Regions of Latin America

Omar Chisari and Sebastian Miller

7509: Evaluation of the Chilean Jack Mackerel ITQ System

Kailin Kroetz, James Sanchirico, Julio Peña-Torres and David Corderi

7507: Changes in Welfare with a Heterogeneous Workforce: The Case of Peru

Adrian Robles and Marcos Robles

7505: Estimating the Impacts of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program in Peru: A Geographical Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lina Salazar, Alessandro Maffioli, Julián Aramburu and Marcos Agurto Adrianzen

7491: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints

Rosangela Bando and Claudia Uribe

7454: Labor Earnings, Misallocation, and the Returns to Education in Mexico

Luis Lopez-Calva and Santiago Levy Algazi

7431: The Unintended Consequences on Crime of "Pennies from Heaven"

Daniel Montolio

7425: Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten

M. Caridad Araujo, Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo and Norbert Schady

7386: Female Corporate Leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean Region: Representation and Firm-Level Outcomes

Scott Abrahams, Luca Flabbi and Claudia Piras

7382: Sharing a Ride on the Commodities Roller Coaster: Common Factors in Business Cycles of Emerging Economies

Diego Rodriguez Guzman, Andres Gonzalez and Andrés Fernández Martin

7381: Innovation and Productivity in Services and Manufacturing: The Role of ICT Investment

Diego Aboal and Ezequiel Tacsir

7369: Does Access to Better Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Improve Child Outcomes? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Norbert Schady

7368: Transitioning the Tax System to Take Advantage of the Natural Gas-Rich Economy in Trinidad and Tobago

Valerie Mercer-Blackman

7367: Experimental Evidence on the Long Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program

Jochen Kluve, Laura Ripani and David Rosas-Shady

7366: Are You (Not) Expecting?: The Unforeseen Benefits of Job Training on Teenage Pregnancy

Rafael Novella and Laura Ripani

7351: Party System Institutionalization and Reliance on Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries

Armin von Schiller

7350: Intended and Unintended Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad

Gary Mena and Werner Hernani-Limarino

7349: Firms' Investment and Savings in Latin America: Stylized Facts from the Enterprise Survey

Lucas Ronconi and Enrique Kawamura

7332: Growing Resources for Growing Cities: Density and the Cost of Municipal Public Services in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Mexico

Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren and Roberto Guerrero Compeán

7324: Tax Incentives and Job Creation in the Tourism Industry of Brazil

Grégoire Garsous, David Corderi and Mercedes Velasco

7313: Nudging the Self-employed into Contributing to Social Security: Evidence from a Nationwide Quasi Experiment in Brazil

Juan Villa, Danilo Fernandes and Mariano Bosch

7311: The Mystery of Saving in Latin America

Ilan Noy, Eduardo Cavallo and Oscar Becerra

7308: Privately Managed Public Secondary Schools and Academic Achievement in Trinidad and Tobago: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments

Diether Beuermann, C. Kirabo Jackson and Ricardo Sierra

7306: Productivity and the Performance of Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: From the Lost Decade to the Commodity Boom

Alejandro Nin Pratt, César Falconi, Carlos Ludena and Pedro Martel

7305: Delivering Parenting Interventions through Health Services in the Caribbean

Susan P. Walker, Christine Powell, Susan M. Chang-Lopez, Helen Baker-Henningham, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Marcos Vera-Hernandez and Florencia Lopez Boo

7296: Enforcement and the Effective Regulation of Labor

Lucas Ronconi

7290: Parking Taxes as a Second Best Congestion Pricing Mechanism

Riley Wilson and Sebastian Miller

7284: Don't Blame the Messenger: A Field Experiment on Delivery Methods for Increasing Tax Compliance

Daniel Ortega and Carlos Scartascini

7278: Understanding Domestic Saving in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Mexico

Miguel Székely, Pamela Mendoza and Jonathan Karver

7267: Conditional Cash Transfers for Women and Spousal Violence: Evidence of the Long-Term Relationship from the Oportunidades Program in Rural Mexico

Gustavo Bobonis, Roberto Castro and Juan Morales

7266: Psychometrics as a Tool to Improve Screening and Access to Credit

Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn and Rodolfo Stucchi

7258: The Political Economy of Pension Reform: Public Opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fabiana Machado and Giselle Vesga

7254: Understanding Domestic Savings in Chile

Rodrigo Cerda, Rodrigo Fuentes, Gonzalo García Trujillo and José Llodrá

7247: Violencia intrafamiliar y transferencias monetarias condicionadas: El impacto de Familias en Acción en Colombia

Catherine Rodriguez