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  1. 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 noncommuni...

    Authors: Maria Victoria Anauati, Sebastian Galiani and Federico Weinschelbaum
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:11
  2. This paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opp...

    Authors: Christian Daude and Virginia Robano
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:9
  3. The traditional time series methodology requires at least a preliminary transformation of the data to get stationarity. On the other hand, robust Bayesian dynamic models (RBDMs) do not assume a regular pattern...

    Authors: Jairo Fúquene, Marta Álvarez and Luis Raúl Pericchi
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:6
  4. Inflation targeting has been widely adopted in Latin America. In this paper, we show evidence consistent with major beneficial effects from so doing, with falling term premia and anchored policy rate expectati...

    Authors: Andrew P. Blake, Garreth R. Rule and Ole J. Rummel
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:3
  5. Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indige...

    Authors: Juan Carlos Pérez Velasco Pavón
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:12
  6. This paper explores the long-run effects of inflation on the dynamics of private sector bank credit and economic growth in Mexico over the period 1969–2011. With an ARDL-type model, the statistical results sug...

    Authors: Miguel Ángel Tinoco-Zermeño, Francisco Venegas-Martínez and Víctor Hugo Torres-Preciado
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:8
  7. The principal objective of the present study is to explain the changes in the direction of agri-food trade flows during the second half of the twentieth century. Since the end of the Second World War, trade ha...

    Authors: Raúl Serrano and Vicente Pinilla
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:10
  8. Mexico has many major problems such as corruption, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, pollution, etc. Regarding pollution, politicians have established some programs trying to improve air quality in Mexico. Bu...

    Authors: José Iván Rodríguez-Sánchez
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:9
  9. This paper studies the mechanisms of market discipline in the Mexican deposit market. It tests the hypothesis that low-quality banks pay higher interest rates on deposits, receive fewer deposits, and shift the...

    Authors: Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:6
  10. 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 sou...

    Authors: Edward B. Barbier and John S. Bugas
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:3

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:7

  11. Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cogniti...

    Authors: Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Manuel Ramírez-Zea and Aryeh D. Stein
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:4
  12. The manufacturing sectors in Latin America have been more affected by the currency over/undervaluation than their counterpart in industrialized economies. From a panel data set covering 39 countries and 22 man...

    Authors: Paulo Henrique Vaz and Werner Baer
    Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:2