Latin American Economic Review - Latest Articles

Crime and violence generate many distortions in the allocation of private and public resources and engender economic and social costs that hinder development. In Latin America and the Caribbean, ...

https://latinaer.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40503-019-0081-5

This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational level for sixteen Latin American countries over the period 1991–2013. We find a pattern of rath...

https://latinaer.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40503-019-0080-6

An estimated 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents each year worldwide and millions more are injured, with developing countries disproportionately affected. It is predicted that the number ...

https://latinaer.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40503-019-0078-0

I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one to...

https://latinaer.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40503-019-0076-2

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With...

https://latinaer.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40503-019-0074-4