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Date issued:
Oct 2026
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A central obstacle to scaling many interventions is implementer quality: as a program expands and the pool of implementers broadens, average quality falls. Conversation-based interventions (…
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Oct 2026
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Severe health events are among the most common shocks households face, and in low- and middle-income countries their consequences are absorbed largely within the family. We study how a parents severe…
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Oct 2026
Over the past few decades, behavioral economics has shown that people systematically deviate from the rational agent model, and the field has focused on correcting the biases underlying the decisions…
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Oct 2026
Durante las últimas décadas, la economía del comportamiento evidenció que las personas se desvían de manera sistemática del modelo del agente racional, y se enfocó en corregir los sesgos detrás de…
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Oct 2026
Este documento analiza cómo la creciente complejidad del sistema de permisos de inversión en Chile se ha convertido en una barrera estructural para la inversión, la productividad y el crecimiento a…
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Oct 2026
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This paper examines how external demand fluctuations transmit asymmetrically to labor market outcomes in Latin America a region where structural informality and institutional rigidity shape the…
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Oct 2026
Jamaica's education system faces a structural paradox: relatively high fiscal effort that has not translated into learning outcomes, while many students leave before reaching tertiary education…
Date issued:
Oct 2026
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Generative AI enabled
Este estudio analiza los desbordes súbitos de lagunas glaciares (GLOF, por sus siglas en inglés) en la cordillera de los Andes como una manifestación de riesgo sistémico emergente en contextos de…
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Oct 2026
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Closing Latin America and the Caribbean's infrastructure gap will require a sustained increase in private investment, particularly in the energy sector. Despite the regions strong renewable…
Date issued:
Oct 2026
El documento analiza las percepciones y obstáculos que enfrentan los hogares beneficiarios de la Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) para cumplir y acreditar las corresponsabilidades de salud y…