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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

7238: A Framework for Ex-Ante Economic Analysis of Tourism Investments: An Application to Haiti

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez and Sebastien Gachot

7232: Brazil's Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth by Farm Size

Steven Helfand and Nicholas Rada

7231: Evaluación de impacto de un programa de inclusión social y prevención de violencia estudiantil

María Gibbons and Martín Rossi

7211: The Effects of Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations on the Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence in Uruguay

Ignacio Munyo and Martín Rossi

7209: Agricultural Productivity Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and Other World Regions: An Analysis of Climatic Effects, Convergence and Catch-up

Michee Lachaud, Boris Bravo-Ureta and Carlos Ludena

7205: Explaining Changes in Tax Burdens in Latin America: Does Politics Trump Economics?

Mark Hallerberg and Carlos Scartascini

7204: What is the Relationship between National Saving and Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Eduardo Cavallo and Mathieu Pedemonte

7184: Planting the Seeds: The Impact of Training on Mango Producers in Haiti

Irani Arraiz, Carla Calero, Songqing Jin and Alexandra Peralta

7136: A Comparison of Saving Rates: Micro Evidence from Seventeen Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Nestor Gandelman

7087: Dealing with the Dutch Disease: Fiscal Rules and Macro-Prudential Policies

Javier García-Cicco and Enrique Kawamura

7006: Multinationals Stockpiling Cash: Exploring a Commodity Boom

Erwin Hansen and Rodrigo Wagner

6989: Structural Fiscal Balances in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Dataset and Estimations

Martin Ardanaz, Ana Corbacho, Alberto Gonzales and Nuria Tolsa Caballero

6978: Religion as an Unemployment Insurance and the Basis of Support for Public Safety Nets: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Camilo Pecha G and Inder Ruprah

6968: Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform

Cesi Cruz and Philip Keefer

6962: Understanding Economic Growth in the Caribbean Region: A Conceptual and Methodological Study

Rodrigo Fuentes, Karl Melgarejo Castillo and Valerie Mercer-Blackman

6946: Household Saving and Labor Informality: The Case of Chile

Alfredo Schclarek and Luis Caggia

6945: Global Demographic Trends, Capital Mobility, Saving and Consumption in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)

Orazio P. Attanasio, Andrea Bonfatti, Sagiri Kitao and Guglielmo Weber

6944: Did You Get Your Shots? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Reminders

Matias Busso, Julian Cristia and Sarah D. Humpage

6940: Information and Communication Technologies, Prenatal Care Services and Neonatal Health

Diether Beuermann, Rafael Anta, Patricia J. García, Alessandro Maffioli, Jose Perez Lu and Maria Fernanda Rodrigo

6917: From Candles to Light: The Impact of Rural Electrification

Irani Arraiz and Carla Calero

6915: On the Implications of Taxation for Investment, Savings and Growth: Evidence from Brazil, Chile and Mexico

Emilio Espino and Martín González Rozada

6914: Do the Rich Save More in Latin America?

Nestor Gandelman

6903: Heterogeneidad regional en las diferencias por género en las tasas de desempleo en Colombia

Enrique Lopez-Bazo, Juan Duque, Gustavo García Cruz and Paula Herrera-Idárraga

6882: Shared Mandates, Moral Hazard, and Political (Mis)alignment in a Decentralized Economy

Antonio Estache, Grégoire Garsous and Ronaldo Seroa da Motta

6880: The Effect of Mandated Child Care on Female Wages in Chile

Maria Prada, Graciana Rucci and Sergio Urzua

6878: Poverty, Vulnerability and the Middle Class in Latin America

Marco Stampini, Marcos Robles, Mayra Sáenz, Pablo Ibarraran and Nadin Medellín

6877: Flujos de trabajadores en el mercado laboral colombiano, determinantes de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres, y futuro laboral esperado

Hugo Lopez Castaño and Francisco Lasso

6867: From Institutions to Financial Development and Growth: What Are the Links?

Andrés Fernández Martin and Juan Pablo Rud

6866: Macroprudential Policy and Labor Market Dynamics in Latin America

Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro and Andres Gonzalez

6865: Global Liquidity, House Prices and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Advanced and Emerging Economies

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Luis Cespedes and Alessandro Rebucci

6858: Returns to Higher Education in Chile and Colombia

Carolina González-Velosa, Graciana Rucci, Miguel Sarzosa and Sergio Urzua

6857: Training Vouchers and Labor Market Outcomes in Chile

David S. Kaplan, Rafael Novella, Graciana Rucci and Claudia Vazquez

6841: Maternity and Labor Markets: Impact of Legislation in Colombia

Natalia Ramírez Bustamante, Ana Tribin and Carmina Vargas

6840: Duración del desempleo en Colombia: Género, intensidad de búsqueda y anuncios de vacantes

Luis Arango Thomas and Ana María Ríos

6828: Labor Exclusion and the Erosion of Citizenship Responsibilities

Lucas Ronconi and Rodrigo Zarazaga

6827: Macroeconomic and Financial Consequences of the Post-Crisis Government-Driven Credit Expansion in Brazil

Marco Bonomo, Ricardo Brito and Bruno Martins

6826: Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica

Daniel Gingerich, Virginia Oliveros, Ana Corbacho and Mauricio Ruiz-Vega

6825: Challenges in Educational Reform: An Experiment on Active Learning in Mathematics

Samuel Berlinski and Matias Busso

6816: Do Education and Health Conditions Matter in a Large Cash Transfer? Evidence from a Honduran Experiment

Fiorella Benedetti, Pablo Ibarraran and Patrick McEwan

6815: Informality, Saving and Wealth Inequality in Colombia

Catalina Granda-Carvajal and Franz Hamann

6814: Capital Control Measures: A New Dataset

Andrés Fernández Martin, Michael Klein, Alessandro Rebucci, Martin Schindler and Martín Uribe

6813: Meaningful Talk

Jorge Streb and Gustavo Torrens

6812: Child Care Arrangements and Labor Supply

Daniela Del Boca

6803: Cuando el gasto en la educación importa: Un análisis empírico de información internacional reciente

Emiliana Vegas

6802: Local Electoral Rewards from Centralized Social Programs: Are Mayors Getting the Credit?

Lourdes Rodríguez Chamussy

6796: Tourism Policy, a Big Push to Employment: Evidence from a Multiple Synthetic Control Approach

Victoria Castillo, Lucas Figal Garone, Alessandro Maffioli and Lina Salazar

6791: Soap Operas for Female Micro Entrepreneur Training

Eduardo Nakasone

6789: Acceso a fuentes de empleo, segregación residencial y resultados laborales de las mujeres en Bogotá

Ana Diaz Escobar

6788: When It Comes to Container Port Efficiency, Are All Developing Regions Equal?

Ancor Suárez-Alemán, Javier Morales Sarriera, Tomas Serebrisky and Lourdes Trujillo

6787: Macroeconomic Effects of Credit Deepening in Latin America

Carlos Carvalho, Nilda Pasca, Laura Souza and Eduardo Zilberman

6783: Food Security and Productivity: Impacts of Technology Adoption in Small Subsistence Farmers in Bolivia

Lina Salazar, Julián Aramburu, Mario González Flores and Paul Winters

6780: Informal Employment and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Case of Mexico

Andrés Fernández Martin

6761: Impact of Early Life Shocks on Human Capital Formation: El Niño Floods in Ecuador

Maria Rosales-Rueda

6755: Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon

Juan Jose Miranda, Leonardo Corral, Allen Blackman, Gregory Asner and Eirivelthon Lima

6745: Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality

Philip Keefer and Branko Milanovic

6741: Do We Need More Women in Power? Gender, Public Policy, and Development in Bolivia

Patricia Yanez-Pagans

6733: The Latin American Middle Class: Fragile After All?

Francesca Castellani, Gwenn Parent and Jannet Zenteno

6724: U.S. Free Trade Agreements and Enforcement of Labor Law in Latin America

Sabina Dewan and Lucas Ronconi

6699: Does Participatory Budgeting Improve Decentralized Public Service Delivery?

Diether Beuermann and Maria Amelina