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Date issued: 9月 2017
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Duryea, Suzanne;Baptista de Freitas, Luísa;Marques Garcia, Luana;Piras, Claudia;Sampaio, Breno;Sampaio, Gustavo R.

This paper analyzes social mobility as realized by students of a high quality public flagship university in Brazil, the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), applying the methodology of Chetty et…

Date issued: 9月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araujo, Danielle;Murphy-Graham, Erin;Pacheco, Tassia;Pacheco Montoya, Diana

There is strong evidence to show that adolescent relationship violence (during non-cohabitating relationships of namoro in Portuguese, noviazgo in Spanish) can lead to adult intimate partner violence…

Date issued: 9月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araujo, Danielle;Murphy-Graham, Erin;Pacheco, Tassia;Pacheco Montoya, Diana

La evidencia muestra que la violencia en relaciones entre adolescentes puede llevar a la violencia íntima de pareja (VIP) entre adultos más adelante. Sin embargo, las investigaciones e intervenciones…

Date issued: 9月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araujo, Danielle;Murphy-Graham, Erin;Pacheco, Tassia;Pacheco Montoya, Diana

Fortes evidências mostram que a violência em relacionamentos de namoro entre adolescentes pode levar à violência entre parceiros/as íntimos/as (VPI) na vida adulta. Porém, as pesquisas e intervenções…

Date issued: 9月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Taylor, Alice;Lauro, Giovanna;Murphy-Graham, Erin;Pacheco, Tassia;Pacheco Montoya, Diana;Araujo, Danielle

There is strong evidence to show that adolescent relationship violence (duringnon-cohabitating relationships of namoro in Portuguese, noviazgo in Spanish) can lead to adult intimate partner violence…

Date issued: 9月 2017
Author(s): Hernández, Juan;Wills, Daniel

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 aims at increasing funding access for young firms by easing securities regulation. Motivated by this, we ask if there is a role for the…

Date issued: 9月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Izquierdo, Alejandro;Leon-Diaz, John

Sudden Stops in net capital flows can be prevented when the actions of domestic investors offset a reduction in foreign lending. This paper presents evidence that while sudden stops in gross inflows…

Date issued: 9月 2017
Author(s): Gunter, Samara;Riera-Crichton, Daniel;Végh, Carlos A.;Vuletin, Guillermo

We estimate the effect of worldwide tax changes on output following the narrative approach developed for the United States by Romer and Romer (2010). We use a novel dataset on value-added taxes for…

Date issued: 9月 2017
Author(s): Sosa, Mariano;Powell, Andrew

The March 2017 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that the simple average growth rate expected for 2017 for the eight countries covered by…

Date issued: 9月 2017
Author(s): Fisher, Mary Kate;Gamper, Catherine

Natural hazards and disasters can have significant impacts on the economic and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean. In the past decade alone, OECD and BRIC countries have…