ENHANCING WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THROUGH BETTER POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA
The selected projects were:
- Washing Machines and Gender Roles. A Pilot Study Intervention. Ximena Peña & Camilo García-Jimeno (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
- One-to-one assistance for social inclusion. A field experiment in extremely vulnerable settings. José María Cabrera, Alejandro Cid & Marianne Bernatzky (Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay)
- The effect of the expansion of public pre-primary school places on maternal employment in Argentina: 2007-2013. Ana Carolina Ortega Masagué & Corina María Paz Terán (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina)
LABOUR DEMAND AND JOB CREATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM FIRMS IN LATIN AMERICA
Three proposals were selected:
- Employment and Labor Regulation: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Bolivia, 1988-2007. Beatriz Muriel H.; Carlos Gustavo Machicado and Tania Evia S. (Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo)
- The Effects of Regulations and Business Cycles on Temporary Contracts, the Organization of Firms and Productivity. Marcela Eslava (Universidad de los Andes) John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland and NBER), Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University and NBER) and Maurice Kugler (The World Bank)
- Youth at Risk: An Investigation of the Determinants of Low Employment Rates for Young Workers and an Evaluation of a Targeted Active Labor Market program (Lei do Aprendiz) Carlos Henrique Corseuil (IPEA), Miguel Foguel (IPEA), Gustavo Gonzaga (PUC-Rio) and Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro (UFRJ)