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Greetings from the editor-in-chief
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-01-28)
Latin American Economic Review (LAER) is an international, refereed open-access journal dedicated to publishing in English original academic research on economics, with rigorous theoretical and methodological standards. ...
Does corruption affect cooperation?: a laboratory experiment
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-09-13)
In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The ...
Delineating functional territories from outer space
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-05-16)
The delimitation of functional spatial units or functional territories is an important topic in regional science and economic geography, since the empirical verification of many causal relationships is affected by the size ...
Yet another tale of two cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-02-02)
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and grain from fertile hinterlands to eastern markets. However, despite their initial ...
Introduction to Argentine exceptionalism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-01-05)
This article is an introduction to the special collection on Argentine Exceptionalism. First, we discuss why the case of Argentina is generally regarded as exceptional: the country was among the richest in the world at the ...
Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay: main drivers and policy implications
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-05-05)
The aim of this research is to explore the existence of inefficient behaviors in public high schools in Uruguay and identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. ...
Poverty, vulnerability, and the middle class in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-08-19)
Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3 to 29.7 % of the population). In this paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by ...
Evidence-based gender equality policy and pay in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress and challenges
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-10-31)
This paper aims to identify the main contributing factors to the observed gender pay inequality in the last 10 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also aims to identify the main restrictions to design evidence-based ...
Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-15)
Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a “residual” pool of rural labor. Although the modern sector may be the source of dynamic ...
Asymmetric real‑exchange‑rate effects on capital accumulation: evidence from non‑linear ARDL models for Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-10-05)
The paper studies the effects of the real exchange rate (RER) on capital accumulation in Mexico in the period since the late 1980s. By testing for the existence of potential asymmetries, the paper seeks to clarify some of ...