, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. Categories of quality determinants include training and curriculum, infrastructure … and Ecuador and match it to survey data. Using machine learning methods, we select the quality determinants that predict … Ecuador--teaching numerical competencies and providing job market information--and one practice--teaching numerical …

Ecuador. Our analysis is based on two separate sources of data and two identification strategies. First, we extend the results … Ecuador is likely to be modest …

model to Ecuador to take advantage of inflation variations and the rich panel of monthly retail prices …

in Ecuador. We find that when firms are notified by the tax authority about detected revenue discrepancies on previously … filed corporate income tax returns, they increase reported revenues, matching the third-party estimate when provided. Firms …

Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly … of the income paid to child laborers in the labor market. Despite being less than foregone earnings, poor families seem …

sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …

, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …

. We find that international trade raises earnings inequality in Ecuador, especially in the upper-half of the income … unique administrative data from Ecuador, our approach yields measures of individual-level exposure to exports and imports …, for both capital and labor income, as well as estimates of the incidence of such exposure across the income distribution …

extant literature is even scarcer in low- and middle-income countries. We fill this knowledge gap by exploiting an unexpected … policy change in Ecuador that abruptly reversed course for reproductive health services for adolescent women in 2014. In a … difference-in-differences analysis of age-specific birth rates in Ecuador's 221 cantons, we find that the abrupt policy change …