We use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in Paraguay. We find that public campaigns had no effect either on the probability of registration, or on voter turnout in the 2013 presidential...

Este trabajo tiene el doble propósito de documentar y analizar el destacado progreso de las ministras latinoamericanas, siguiendo la ruta de su crecimiento en el tiempo, por países y sectores, y de servir de homenaje a todas las mujeres que han desempeñado cargos ministeriales en América Latina.

Este trabajo tiene el doble propósito de documentar y analizar el destacado progreso de las ministras latinoamericanas, siguiendo la ruta de su crecimiento en el tiempo, por países y sectores, y de servir de homenaje a todas las mujeres que han desempeñado cargos ministeriales en América Latina.

This paper compares non-enforceable and enforceable measures of labor rigidities as a measure of the quality of labor institutions, and tests whether such labor rigidities are conducive to long-run growth. We find that non-enforceable labor regulations do not have a bearing on economic growth,...

Unlike previous empirical studies that focus on barriers to entry in international trade, we focus on barriers to exit as measured by passport costs for a crosssection of countries. We test four common theories on the determinants of such exit barriers and find that macroeconomic and brain-drain...