This study explores the gendered impacts of violent crime on economic opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean. While both men and women experience violent crime, their exposure to violent crime and the consequences they suffer differ. Women are disproportionately affected by intimate...

Even though sustainable resource use has become a strategic priority, there remains limited empirical evidence on how board diversity influences water and energy efficiency, particularly in emerging economies such as those in Latin America. Accordingly, this study investigates the relationship...

Research on teacher preparation programs (TPPs) continues to debate the extent to which program quality meaningfully shapes teacher effectiveness. While early evidence from highincome contexts documented nontrivial differences across programs, more recent studies suggest that most variation in...

Comparison of economies is essential for public policymaking but considerably hindered by the fact that statistics expressed in local currencies are not directly comparable. Market exchange rates give a distorted view, as they do not reflect the differences in price levels between countries.To...

We study how individuals in six Latin American countries value public versus private provision of education and healthcare using a survey experiment. Respondents were randomly assigned to vignettes that vary income, service quality, and provider type. Perceived quality is the main driver of...

This paper studies trust, reciprocity, and bargaining using a large-scale online experiment conducted in six Latin American countries. Participants played trust and ultimatum games under randomly assigned conditions in which the gender of their counterpart was either disclosed or withheld. On...

Recidivism is a persistent challenge for criminal justice systems worldwide, yet evidence from Latin America remains scarce. This study addresses that gap through three contributions. First, it reviews the individual, institutional, and contextual determinants of recidivism, with special...

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes aim to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by fostering human capital accumulation among children in vulnerable households. However, due to data limitations, evidence on their long-run effects remains scarce. This paper contributes to...

In Latin America, Mexico (2020), Chile (2022) and Colombia (2022) have all officially committed to a feminist foreign policy (FFP). The introduction of a feminist approach to foreign policy should be seen in the context of a growing awareness of gender issues in international, regional and...

"Rethinking Taxation for Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Objectives, Behavioral Responses, and Technological Advances" argues for a shift beyond the traditional focus on collection efficiency and equity to explicitly include economic growth as a primary objective. It highlights how...

In this paper, we examine energy demand in a group of Latin American regions using a fractional integration approach. Employing annual data from 1965 to 2023 on primary energy consumption in exajoules (EJ) and per capita consumption in gigajoules (GJ), we investigate the persistence and...

We study the effect of a randomized one-on-one remote phone tutoring program implemented between 2021 and 2023. The intervention reached more than seven thousand students in seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. The program targeted...

The agri-food sector in Latin America, including the production, processing, packaging, and distribution of food and beverages, continues to be a key driver of economic growth and regional competitiveness. Over the past decade, the sector has shown resilience and adaptability, highlighted by the...

The agri-food sector in Latin America, including the production, processing, packaging, and distribution of food and beverages, continues to be a key driver of economic growth and regional competitiveness. Over the past decade, the sector has shown resilience and adaptability, highlighted by the...