, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …

policy change in Ecuador that abruptly reversed course for reproductive health services for adolescent women in 2014. In a … difference-in-differences analysis of age-specific birth rates in Ecuador's 221 cantons, we find that the abrupt policy change …

unique administrative data from Ecuador, our approach yields measures of individual-level exposure to exports and imports …. We find that international trade raises earnings inequality in Ecuador, especially in the upper-half of the income … distribution. However, the drop in inequality experienced by Ecuador over the last decade would have been less pronounced in the …

Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly …

sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …

Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …