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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 A. García 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

6687: The Effect of Acute and Intensive Exposure to Particulate Matter on Birth Outcomes in Montevideo

Ana Balsa, Juanita Bloomfield and Marcelo Caffera

6678: The Effect of Cash Transfers to Schools on Voluntary Contributions

Rosangela Bando

6677: The Role of Renewable Energy Laws in Expanding Energy from Non-Traditional Renewables

Nancy McCarthy and Heath Henderson

6676: When a Short-term Analysis is not a Short-term Approach: Impacts of Agricultural Technology Adoption in Bolivia

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

6672: Quake'n and Shake'n...Forever! Long-Run Effects of Natural Disasters: A Case Study on the 1970 Ancash Earthquake

Sebastian Miller and German Caruso

6671: Can Bottom-Up Institutional Reform Improve Service Delivery?

Ezequiel Molina

6607: Partisanship, Ideology, and Representation in Latin America

Sebastián Saiegh

6606: Does Firm Heterogeneity Impact the Effectiveness of Carbon Taxes? Experiments in Argentina and Mexico

Omar Chisari and Sebastian Miller

6605: Uncertainty and Economic Activity: A Global Perspective

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Mohammad Pesaran and Alessandro Rebucci

6604: On the Credibility of Inflation Targeting Regimes in Latin America

Rodrigo Mariscal, Andrew Powell and Pilar Tavella

6603: State Capacity and the Quality of Policies: Revisiting the Relationship between Openness and the Size of Government

Maria Franco Chuaire, Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

6596: The Effect of In-Service Teacher Training on Student Learning of English as a Second Language

Rosangela Bando and Xia Li

6595: Mind the Gap: Bridging the Perception and Reality of Crime Rates with Information

Martin Ardanaz, Ana Corbacho and Mauricio Ruiz-Vega

6570: The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia

Dolores de la Mata and Mauricio G. Valencia-Amaya

6568: Foreign Bank Behavior during Financial Crises

Jonathon Adams-Kane, Julian Caballero and Jamus Lim

6567: Assessing the Effects of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors on Vulnerability to Vector-Borne Diseases in Latin America

Rodrigo García Ayala and Andrés Estrugo

6566: Impacts of Climate Change on Dengue Risk in Brazil

Paula C. Pereda, Tatiane A. de Menezes and Denisard Alves

6561: Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, Ryan Cooper, Sebastian Martinez, Adam Ross and Raimundo Undurraga

6560: Land Accumulation Dynamics in Developing Country Agriculture

Heath Henderson, Leonardo Corral, Eric Simning and Paul Winters

6554: Is Business Saving Really None of Our Business?

Ricardo Bebczuk and Eduardo Cavallo

6553: Is the Eurozone on the Mend? Latin American Examples to Analyze the Euro Question

Eduardo Cavallo, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Andrew Powell

6546: The Socio-Economic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6-42 Months In Bogota

Marta Rubio-Codina, Orazio P. Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Natalia Varela and Sally Grantham-McGregor

6537: Do Remittances Help Smooth Consumption During Health Shocks? Evidence From Jamaica

Diether Beuermann, Inder Ruprah and Ricardo Sierra

6516: The Effect of Credit on the Export Performance of Colombian Exporters

Danielken Molina and Mónica Roa

6515: Productivity, Exporting and Financial Constraints of Chinese SMEs

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

6514: Export Mix Changes and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chile

Roberto Alvarez and Andres Zahler

6506: Do Export Promotion Agencies Promote New Exporters?

Marcio Cruz

6497: Non-contributory pensions

Rosangela Bando, Paul Gertler and Sebastian Galiani

6494: Development Diagnostics for the Southern Cone

Eduardo Borensztein, Sebastian Miller, Gabriel Sánchez and Patricio Valenzuela

6487: Global boom, local impacts: Mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007-2011

Omar Zambrano, Marcos Robles and Denisse Laos

6482: Remittances and the Impact on Crime in Mexico

Steve Brito, Ana Corbacho and Rene Osorio Rivas

6481: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development in Chile

Andres Zahler, Claudio Bravo Ortega, Daniel Goya and Jose Miguel Benavente

6451: Climate Change Impacts on Birth Outcomes in Brazil

Paula C. Pereda, Tatiane A. de Menezes and Denisard Alves

6446: Is Disaster Risk Reduction Spending Driven by the Occurrence of Natural Disasters? Evidence from Peru

Mauricio A. Vela and Sebastian Miller

6445: Inflation Targeting and Quantitative Tightening: Effects of Reserve Requirements in Peru

Adrián Armas, Paul Castillo and Marco Vega

6444: El impacto del apoyo al cluster de TIC de la ciudad argentina de Córdoba

Victoria Castillo, David Giuliodori, Alessandro Maffioli, Alejandro Rodríguez, Sofía Rojo and Rodolfo Stucchi

6411: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Colombia

Marcela Eslava, Marcela Meléndez Arjona and Guillermo Perry

6410: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Argentina

Ricardo Rozemberg, Daniela Ramos, Andrés López, Juan Hallak, Andrea Gonzalez and Roberto Bisang

6405: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development in Uruguay

Macarena González, Carlos Bianchi, Andrés Rius and Lucía Pittaluga

6394: Inflation Targeting in Colombia, 2002-2012

Miguel Urrutia, Marc Hofstetter and Franz Hamann

6393: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica

Jorge Cornick, Jorge Jimenez and Marcela Román

6379: Taxation and Economic Growth in Colombia

Roberto Steiner

6335: Towards a "New" Inflation Targeting Framework: The Case of Uruguay

Martin Sola and Martín González Rozada

6334: Central Bank Liquidity Management and "Unconventional" Monetary Policies

Enrique Kawamura and Javier García-Cicco

6305: The Integration Movement in the Caribbean at Crossroads: Towards a New Approach of Integration

Uziel Nogueira

6304: Las relaciones de comercio e inversión entre Colombia y Venezuela

Eglé Iturbe de Blanco

6303: MERCOSUL e Comércio Agropecuário

Ives Chaloult and Guillermo Hillcoat

6301: The Use of Subsidies to Achieve Efficient Resource Allocation in Upland Watersheds

Darrell L. Hueth

6300: Economic Analysis of the Environmental Aspects of Investment Projects

William J. Vaughan and Sergio Ardila

6298: Household Water Demand Estimation

Miguel Bacharach and William J. Vaughan

6297: Government Policies Affecting Forests in Latin America: An Agenda for Discussion

Jan G. Laarman