Mar 2023
El presente documento reporta los resultados de varias intervenciones de tutorías remotas de baja tecnología para acelerar los aprendizajes en matemática de niños entre 9 y 14 años de edad,…
Feb 2023
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) realize their objective of promoting sustainable development through a combination of financing (lending, guarantees) and non-financing instruments (technical…
Feb 2023
We study how signaling skills that are specific to college majors affect labor market outcomes of college graduates. We rely on census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the…
Feb 2023
CACAO is a web platform that allows for the receipt, validation, processing, and analysis of accounting data from taxpayers in a standardized manner. Developed in open-source code, the platform'…
Feb 2023
CACAO es una plataforma web que permite la recepción, validación, procesamiento y análisis de datos contables de los contribuyentes de forma estandarizada. Desarrollada en código abierto, el objetivo…
Feb 2023
We estimate import processing costs based on the time it takes to import. Our theory extends existing time-cost measures to account for uncertainty in import processing. We use detailed, highly…
Feb 2023
El objetivo de este informe es presentar el concepto de los ecosistemas de innovación en puertos, sus componentes, y la teoría por detrás de esta tendencia que se va consolidando en los últimos años…
Feb 2023
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) holds the PPP Americas every two years in partnership with a national or subnational government. The regional forum brings together top professionals and…
Feb 2023
We focus on gender and sexual diversity in the secondary school setting due to the important role that education systems play in reducing social distance between individuals. Adolescence is also a…
Feb 2023
El porcentaje de alumnos LGBT en una clase no está vinculado significativamente a la prevalencia de violencia en la escuela. Hay un efecto relacionado con el género del aumento del contacto con…
Feb 2023
The development and expansion of platforms, as an opportunity to identify and connect labor demand and supply, has generated favorable expectations of job opportunities for less integrated groups…
Feb 2023
La inclusión financiera es una faceta del desarrollo financiero y sigue siendo un reto para América Latina. Esta nota sigue un camino novedoso al enfocarse en las condiciones asociadas a trabajadoras…
Feb 2023
We assess the extent of discrimination against gay and transgender individuals in the rental housing markets of four Latin American countries. We conducted a large-scale field experiment building on…
Feb 2023
We conducted two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the impact of government-guaranteed loans offered by the Chilean and Colombian governments. The public funds of these programs greatly…
Feb 2023
We perform a principal component analysis of the inflation dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess the recent surge in inflation across the region. The principal component accounts for…
Feb 2023
This publication includes contributions for the design of fiscal policies that are oriented towards decarbonization and resilience to climate change. It addresses the main areas of responsibility…
Feb 2023
Esta publicación incluye aportes para el diseño de políticas scales que se orienten hacia la descarbonización y la resiliencia al cambio climático. El documento aborda las principales áreas de…
Feb 2023
Most studies of total factor productivity (TFP) and long-term production functions use capital stock time series obtained from ad hoc estimates of the rate of depreciation and the initial capital…
Feb 2023
We contribute to understanding the challenges for estimating the size of the LGBTQ population and discriminatory sentiment against it by surveying 10,003 individuals, whom we randomize into a direct…
Feb 2023
Self-collected data on public sector employees from eighteen Latin American countries reveal that employees trust in each other affects individual constraints, organizational constraints, and mission…