Pub Date : 2015-11-26DOI: 10.1007/S40503-015-0023-9
John Berdell, Animesh Ghoshal
{"title":"US–Mexico border tourism and day trips: an aberration in globalization?","authors":"John Berdell, Animesh Ghoshal","doi":"10.1007/S40503-015-0023-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-015-0023-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87749951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-11-11DOI: 10.1007/S40503-015-0027-5
L. Jaitman
{"title":"Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities","authors":"L. Jaitman","doi":"10.1007/S40503-015-0027-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-015-0027-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"1-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83537353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-11-11DOI: 10.1007/S40503-015-0026-6
M. Urquiola
{"title":"Progress and challenges in achieving an evidence-based education policy in Latin America and the Caribbean","authors":"M. Urquiola","doi":"10.1007/S40503-015-0026-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-015-0026-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"99 1","pages":"1-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90018129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-11-10DOI: 10.1007/S40503-015-0024-8
Sebastian Galiani
{"title":"Introduction to research at the policy frontier in Latin America","authors":"Sebastian Galiani","doi":"10.1007/S40503-015-0024-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-015-0024-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"60 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87012502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-10-28DOI: 10.1007/S40503-015-0030-X
Christian Daude, Virginia Robano
{"title":"On intergenerational (im)mobility in Latin America","authors":"Christian Daude, Virginia Robano","doi":"10.1007/S40503-015-0030-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-015-0030-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"21 1","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82741403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-10-07DOI: 10.1007/S40503-015-0022-X
Tobias Pfutze
{"title":"Does access to health insurance reduce the risk of miscarriages? Evidence from Mexico’s Seguro popular","authors":"Tobias Pfutze","doi":"10.1007/S40503-015-0022-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-015-0022-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81195172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-09-24DOI: 10.1007/S40503-015-0021-Y
Pedro P. Orraca-Romano
{"title":"Does access to free health insurance crowd-out private transfers? Evidence from Mexico’s Seguro Popular","authors":"Pedro P. Orraca-Romano","doi":"10.1007/S40503-015-0021-Y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-015-0021-Y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89350861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Although climate change is filled with uncertainties, a broad set of policies proposed to address this issue can be grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope with climate change have stressed the importance of mitigation, which ideally requires a global agreement that is still lacking. This paper uses a theoretical framework to argue that in the absence of a binding international agreement on mitigation, Latin America should focus mainly on adaptation to cope with the consequences of climate change. This is not a recommendation that such economies indulge in free-riding. Instead, it is based on cost–benefit considerations, all else being equal. Only in the presence of a global binding agreement can the region hope to exploit its comparative advantage in the conservation and management of forests, which are a large carbon sink. The decision of which policies to implement should depend on the results of a thorough cost–benefit analysis of competing projects, yet very little is known or has been carried out in this area to date. Research should be directed toward cost–benefit analysis of alternative climate change policies. Policymakers should compare other investments that are also pressing in the region, such as interventions to reduce water and air pollution, and determine which will render the greatest benefits.
{"title":"Climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: policy options and research priorities","authors":"Brian Feld, Sebastian Galiani","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2611954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2611954","url":null,"abstract":"Although climate change is filled with uncertainties, a broad set of policies proposed to address this issue can be grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope with climate change have stressed the importance of mitigation, which ideally requires a global agreement that is still lacking. This paper uses a theoretical framework to argue that in the absence of a binding international agreement on mitigation, Latin America should focus mainly on adaptation to cope with the consequences of climate change. This is not a recommendation that such economies indulge in free-riding. Instead, it is based on cost–benefit considerations, all else being equal. Only in the presence of a global binding agreement can the region hope to exploit its comparative advantage in the conservation and management of forests, which are a large carbon sink. The decision of which policies to implement should depend on the results of a thorough cost–benefit analysis of competing projects, yet very little is known or has been carried out in this area to date. Research should be directed toward cost–benefit analysis of alternative climate change policies. Policymakers should compare other investments that are also pressing in the region, such as interventions to reduce water and air pollution, and determine which will render the greatest benefits.","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80834201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Victoria Anauati, Sebastian Galiani, F. Weinschelbaum
The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In light of this, the region faces two main challenges: (1) develop cost-effective policies to prevent NCD risk factors, and (2) increase access to quality healthcare in a scenario in which a large share of the labor force is employed in the informal sector. This paper describes both alternative interventions to expand health insurance coverage and their trade-off with labor informality and moral hazard problems. The paper also focuses on obesity as a case example of an NCD, and emphasizes how lack of knowledge along with self-control problems would lead people to make suboptimal decisions related to food consumption, which may later manifest in obesity problems.
{"title":"The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges for public health policies","authors":"Maria Victoria Anauati, Sebastian Galiani, F. Weinschelbaum","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2605662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2605662","url":null,"abstract":"The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In light of this, the region faces two main challenges: (1) develop cost-effective policies to prevent NCD risk factors, and (2) increase access to quality healthcare in a scenario in which a large share of the labor force is employed in the informal sector. This paper describes both alternative interventions to expand health insurance coverage and their trade-off with labor informality and moral hazard problems. The paper also focuses on obesity as a case example of an NCD, and emphasizes how lack of knowledge along with self-control problems would lead people to make suboptimal decisions related to food consumption, which may later manifest in obesity problems.","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"230 1","pages":"1-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80231737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-05-05DOI: 10.1007/S40503-015-0019-5
Daniel Santín, G. Sicilia
{"title":"Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay: main drivers and policy implications","authors":"Daniel Santín, G. Sicilia","doi":"10.1007/S40503-015-0019-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-015-0019-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81180800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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