2011 Santiago, Chile.

1. Mobility in Latin America: are countries in the region becoming middle class societies? (Download) (Presentation)  Maurizio Bussolo and Elie Murard
2. Business cycles and intergenerational mobility: Evidence from the Great Recession of the XXI century  (Download) (Presentation) João Pedro Azevedo
3. Are there ethnic inequality traps in education? Empirical evidence on intergenerational mobility for Brazil and Chile  (Download) (Presentation) Guillermo Cruces, Marcelo Bérgolo, Adriana Conconi and Andrés Ham 
4. Natural Disasters and Educational achievement: Evidence from the Chilean Earthquake 27/F (Download) (Presentation)  Dante Contreras, Matías Morales and Paulina Sepúlveda 
5. Key Note Speaker: Francisco Ferreira. Social mobility and vulnerability (Presentation) 
6. A Decade of Earnings Mobility in Chile and Nicaragua  (Download) (Presentation) Rafael Novella, Laura Ripani, Maria Cecilia Soto and Luis Tejerina.
7. School segregation in Argentina. Reconstructing the evidence (Download)  (Presentation) Leonardo Gasparini, David Jaume, Monserrat Serio and Emmanuel Vázquez.

2011 Cuernavaca, Morelos. Mexico

1.     Food Insecurity and Public Agricultural Spending in Bolivia. Putting Money Where Your Mouth Is? [Download] [Presentation]                                              

José Cuesta, Lucia Madrigal y Svetlana Edmeades

2.     Development Against Poverty as a Complex System in a Mayan Village. [Download] [Presentation]

Heriberto Cuanalo

3.     The Short Term Causal Effects of Seguro Popular on Formal Employment. [Download] [Presentation]

Nelly Aguilera

4.     Lead exposure and its effects in academic achievement: Evidence from an environmental. [Download] [Presentation]

Sergio Urzua, Tomas Rau and Loreto Reyes

5.     Key Note Speaker: Gonzalo Hernández Licona  [Presentation]

6.     Evaluation of the Impact of a Remedial Mathematic Program in Mexico City. [Download] [Presentation]

Emilio Gutiérrez and Rodimiro Rodrigo

7.     Equality of Educational Opportunities at Public Primary Schools in Argentina. [Download] [Presentation]

Cecilia Adrogue

8.     Equality of Opportunity in Academic. Achievement in Latin America: An Investigation. Employing PISA 2006-2009. [Download] [Presentation]

Luis Fernando Gamboa and Fábio D. Waltenberg

9.     Assessing the Impact of School Subsidies in Bolivia: A reduced form non-parametric approach. [Download] [Presentation]

Werner Hernani

2010 Medellin, Colombia

1.    Social interaction, segregation and school achievement in Argentina.  [Download] [Presentation] Maria Ana Lugo

2.    Incentives in CCTs and Teenage Childbearing, Evidence from Colombia.  [Download] [Presentation]

Darwin Cortés Juan Miguel Gallego y Darío Maldonado

3.     Key Note Speaker: Miguel Urquiola "Anti-lemons:  School reputation and educational quality"  [Presentation]

4.    Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital: Evidence from Colombia.  [Download] [Presentation]

Javier E. Baez, Adriana Camacho

5.    Unobserved heterogeneity, school choice and the effect of voucher schools: evidence from Chile.  [Download] [Presentation]

Tomas Rau, Cristian Sanchez, Sergio Urzua.

6.    Civil War, Forced Migration and Educational Attainment in Destination Areas: Evidence from Colombia.  [Download] [Presentation]

Valentina Calderon-Mejia

7.    The Legacy of Civil War: Post-War Schooling. Inequality in Guatemala.  [Download] [Presentation] Rubiana Chamarbagwala  and Hilcas E. Moran

8.    Determinants and Dynamics of Schooling and Child Labor in Bolivia.   [Download] [Presentation] Francesco Grigoli, Giacomo Sbrana

9.    The Effect of Participation in Public Childcare Centers: Evidence from Chile.  [Download] [Presentation]

Grace Noboa Hidalgo and Sergio S. Urzua

10.   Presentation and round table discussion of “Commitment to Equity: A Diagnostic Tool to Assess Governments' Fiscal Policies” by Nora Lustig   [Presentation] 

2010 New Orleans, USA

1.     Permanent effects of economic crises on household welfate: Evidence and porjections from Argentina´s downtuns. [Download]  [Presentation] 

Guillermo Cruces, Pablo Gluzmann and  Luis Felipe López Calva

2.     The permanent effects of recessions on child health: Evidence from Peru [Download][Presentation]  

Jorge Aguero and Martín Valdivia

3.     The effect of Ecuador´s economic crisis on child health and cognitive development [Download][Presentation] 

Melissa Hidrobo                           

4.     Buying less, but shopping more: The use of non-market labor during a crisis [Download] [Presentation] 

Ernesto Schargrodsky  and David McKenzie                 

5.     The effects of income shocks on child labor and conditional cash transfer programs as an insurance mechanism for schooling[Download] [Presentation] 

Monica Ospina  

6.     Labor insertion assessment of conditional cash transfer programs: A dose-response estimate for Mexico´s Oportunidades [Download] [Presentation] 

Juan Villa and Pablo Ibarrarán

7.     Incentives under the New Pension Solidarity Pillar in Chile [Download] [Presentation]  

Eduardo Fajnzylber

8.     Key Note Speaker: Santiago Levy [Presentation] 

2009 Buenos Aires, Argentina

1.     Skills Premium in Chile: Studying the Skills Bias Technical Change Hypothesis in the South [Download] 

Francisco A. Gallego

2.     Recent Trends in Income Inequality in Latin America[Download] 

Leonardo Gasparini, Guillermo Cruces and Leopoldo Tornarolli

3.     The existence of Poverty Traps: Old Question - New Answer. Evidence from Rural Mexico[Download]   

Vera Chiodi

4.     Leveling the Intra-household Playing Field: Compensation and Specialization in Child Labor Allocation [Download] 

Ximena V. del Carpio and Karen Macours

5.     On the Distributional Implications of Climate Change: A Methodological Framework and Application to Rural India [Download] 

Hanan Jacoby, Mariano Rabassa and Emmanuel Skoufias

6.     Why Don´t We See Poverty Convergence? [Download]

Martin Ravallion

2009 Lima, Peru

1.     Entrepreneurship and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Colombia [Download] [Presentation]
Adriana Camacho and Catherine Rodriguez

2.     MDG Achievement: Potential Costs and Policy Implications for Peru [Download] [Presentation] 
Gustavo Yamada and Juan Francisco Castro

3.     El sector salud en Colombia: Impacto del SGSSS después de más de una década de reforma [Download] [Presentation]
Mauricio Santa María, Fabián García Carlos Felipe Prada, María José Uribe and Tatiana Vásquez

4.     Los costos no salariales y el mercado laboral: Impacto de la reforma a la salud en Colombia [Download]
Mauricio Santa María, Fabián García and Ana Virginia Mujica

5.     Demography, Youth Fragility and Violent Crime: The Case of Brazil [Download] [Presentation]
Joao M. De Mello

6.     Transmisión integeneracional de la desigualdad en habilidades cognitivas  [Download] [Presentation]
Aniel Altamirano and Isidro Soloaga

7.     Evaluación de impacto de Chile Solidario para la primera cohorte de participantes [Download] [Presentation]
Osvaldo Larrañaga, Dante Contreras and Jaime Ruiz-Tagle

8.     The Logic of Violence in  Drug Wars [Download][Presentation] 

Benjamin Lessing

2008 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1.     The Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor [Download]
Alberto Zezza, Benjamin Davis, Carlo Azzarri, Katia Covarrubias, Luca Tasciotti and Gustavo Anriquez

2.     Actualización de Mapas de Pobreza en México 2005
[Download]
Carolina Izaguirre Corzo, Luis Felipe López Calva and Lourdes Rodríguez-Chamussy

3.     Returns to Education and Increasing Wage Inequality in Latin America [Download]
Chiara Binelli

4.     The Effect of Rising Food Prices on Poverty in Honduras
 [Download]
Gabriel Demombynes, Eliana Rubiano and Carlos Sobrado

5.     The Sources of Welfare Disparities Across and Within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the 2002-03 POF [Download]
Roy Katayama and Emmanuel Skoufias

6.     Assessment of the Distributive Impact of Trade Reforms in Brazil [Download]
Fernando Borraz, Máximo Rossi and Daniel Ferrés

7.     Density, Distance and Division in Latin America and the Caribbean: Analysis with a Unified Local-Level Economic Welfare Map [Download]
Hector V. Conroy and Gabriel Demombynes

8.     The Impact of Food Price Increases on Poverty in Mexico
[Download]
Juan Carlos Chávez Martín del Campo and Héctor Juan Villareal Páez

9.     Inequality of Learning Opportunities in Chile: Measures and Recent Trends [Download]
Jérémie Gignoux and Anna Crespo

2008 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1.     Pobreza Multidimensional Relativa: Una aplicación a la Argentina [Download]

 Adriana Conconi and Andrés Ham

2.     Multidimensional Poverty Among Children in Uruguay 2004-2006. Evidence from Panel Data [Download] 

Verónica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim and Andrea Vigorito

3.     Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Colombia: The Cases of Bogotá and Medellín[Download] 

Carlos Medina, Leonardo Morales and Jairo Núñez

4.     Education and Life Satisfaction: Perception or Reality?[Download] 

Mauricio Cárdenas, Carolina Mejía and Vincenzo Di Maro

5.     Human Development and the Inter-Generational Transmission  of Inequality [Download] 

Luis Felipe López Calva and Isidro Soloaga

6.     Midiendo la Inequidad: Una Propuesta Ilustrada con el Caso de Venezuela [Download] 

Emiro A. Molina C. 

7.     Impacto Ecnómico de la Diabetes Mellitus en la República Dominicana: Análisis y Recomendaciones de Políticas Públicas[Download]  

Frank Fuentes Brito

8.     Felicidad, Riqueza y Movilidad Social en Colombia: una mirada crítica a las medidas subjetivas de bienestar[Download]  

María del Mar Palau

9.     Characterization of Inequality Changes through Microeconometric Decomposition[Download]  

Thomas Otter

2007 Bogotá, Colombia

1.     Cash Transfers and Poverty Reduction in Chile [Download] 

Claudio A. Agostini and Philip H. Brown

2.     Human Capital Formation, Inequality and Competition for Jobs[Download] 

Daniel Mejia and Marc St-Pierre

3.     The Performance of Decentralized School Systems: Evidence from Fe y Alegría in Venezuela [Download]  

Hunt Allcott and Daniel E. Ortega

4.     The Brazilian Education Quality Index (Ideb): Measurement and Incentives Upgrades [Download]  

Marcelo Cortes Neri and Gabriel Buchmann

5.     Poor students have it tougher: academic performance by ninth-graders in two Mexican states [Download] 

Hector J. Villareal

6.     The Education Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean [Download] 

Suzanne Duryea, Sebastian Galiani, Hugo Ñopo and Claudio Piras

7.     Agriculture, Aggregation, Wage Gaps, and Cross-Country Income Differences[Download]   

Juan Carlos Córdoba and Marla Ripoll

8.     How does the level of urbanization matter for poverty reduction?[Download]  

Panupong Panudulkitti

9.     Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Gender and Ethnicity in Guatemala [Download] 

Priscila Hermida

10.   Distinguishing Chronic Poverty from Transient Poverty in Brazil: Developing a Model for Pseudo-Panel Data [Download] 

Rafael Perez Ribas and Ana Flávia Machado

11.   When Schools are the ones that choose: the effect of screening in Chile [Download] 

Dante Contretas, Sebastián Bustos and Paulina Sepúlveda

12.   Does Inequality Harm Income Mobility and Growth? An Assessment of the Growth Impact of Income and Education Inequality in Paraguay 1992-2002 [Download]  

Thomas Otter