As the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) decided to start its annual meeting on Halloween, here are some spooky jovial papers. your guess is as good as mine as to which are crunchy treats and which are veiled tricks.
And yes, all of these treats are from colleagues from the IDB. You can call it shameless institutional promotion, if you wish.
- Impact of Bolivia’s Universal Pension on Income, Consumption and Poverty
- Small is not Beautiful: Firm-Level Evidence of the Link Between Credit, Firm Size, and Competitiveness in Colombia
- Dried Up: The Impact of Climate Change on Local Development in Brazil
- Does Birth Under-Registration Reduce Childhood Immunization? Evidence from the Dominican Republic
- Socioeconomic Status and Early Childhood Cognitive Skills: Is Latin America Different?
- Mind the Gap: Bridging Perception and Reality with Crime Information
- The Effects of Air Pollution on Educational Outcome: Evidence from Chile
- Home Computers and Child Outcomes: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru
- Is Entrepreneurship Inherited? A Study of Intergenerational Mobility in Mexico
- Pedagogical Change in Mathematics Teaching: Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Control Trial
- Calling Their Bluff: Expressed and Revealed Preferences of Top College Graduates Entering Teaching in Argentina
- Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program
- Labor Informality and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies
- Gender Gaps in Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States: The Impact of Employers’ Prejudice
- Cognitive Skills Gaps in India: Can (Late) Nutrition Ameliorate Them?
- Labor Markets, Social Protection and the Informal Economy in Latin America”
- Technical High School and Vocational Training in Latin America
- Commodity Price Booms and Breaks: Detection, Magnitude and Implications for Developing Countries
- A New Taxonomy of Sudden Stops: Which Sudden Stops Should Countries be most Concerned About?
- How Can Job Opportunities for Young People in Latin America be improved?
- Equilibrium Unemployment during Financial Crises
- Worker-Level Adjustment Costs in a Developing Country: Evidence from Mexico
- On the Credibility of Inflation Targeting Regimes in Latin America
- Non-Parametric Analysis of Poverty Duration using Repeated Cross-Section: an Application for Peru
- Prices and Supply Disruptions during Natural Disasters
- Terms of Trade and Fiscal Sustainability when the Sovereign Exploits a Natural Resource
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