The sanitary and economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic brought about the most significant disruption in the history of the education sector in Latin America and the Caribbean region, leading to school closures at all levels and affecting over 170 million students throughout the region....

This paper studies the impact of human capital on the relationship between inward foreign direct investment and economic growth in ASEAN and Latin America during 1975-1995. We test two hypotheses. First, we hypothesise that there is a two-way relationship between economic growth and FDI. Second,...

Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in...