The Capital Markets reform of 2001 in Chile (MK I) established a tax exemption for income from capital gains from the sale of stocks with high trading volume. the goals of the reform were to increase participation, size, and liquidity in the local stock market. However, it is not clear how a tax...

Measurement of intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education requires linked information about children's and parents' educational attainment. However, several economies do not offer better data alternatives to estimate IGM than the use of coresident samples (i.e., samples with this link only...

This paper addresses three policy questions related to the episodes of real exchange rate (RER) appreciation in the aftermath of the 2008-09 global financial crisis. First, we determine the extent to which recent movements in RER, in several countries, are driven by changes in RER determinants...

[fre] L’intégration aux marchés financiers internationaux (IMFI) en Amérique latine n’a pas été aisée. Les expériences étudiées de l’Argentine, du Brésil, du Chili et du Mexique montrent que l’intégration financière n’est pas un objectif facile à atteindre. Le cadre...

This paper estimates intergenerational mobility in education using data from 91 censuses in 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean spanning over half a century. It measures upward mobility as the likelihood that individuals will complete one educational stage more than their parents...

Inequality in Latin America fell substantially in the early 2000s. In this paper, we take advantage of administrative matched employee-employed data in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador to examine whether these inequality trends held in the formal sector, as well. We document a significant decrease in...