50 minutes presentations, including questions from the audience.
First session
Chair: Guadalupe Aguero Heredia
9:45 - 10:35 Julieta Trias (World Bank)
Home visitation or group intervention? Effects of early stimulation on child well-being in rural Guatemala: A cluster randomized control trial
joint Irma Arteaga (University of Missouri)
10:35 - 11:25 Alejandro Tamola (IDB)
Does increasing productive credit availability improve financial inclusion? Evidence from El Salvador
joint with Leticia Donoso (IDB), Oscar Mitnik (IDB) and Edgar Salgado (IDB)
11:25 - 11:45 Welcome remarks
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break
Second session
Chair: Monserrat Serio
12:00 - 12:50 David Jaume (Bank of Mexico)
Oh mother: The neglected impact of school disruptions
joint with Alexander Willen (Norwegian School of Economics)
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
Third session
Chair: Sandra Martinez
14:00 - 14:50 Juan Marcos Wlaziuk (Central Bank of Chile)
The microstructure of labor reallocation: jobs transitions and productivity gaps
joint with Chad Syverson (University of Chicago), Elias Albagli (Central Bank of Chile) and Mario Canales (Central Bank of Chile)
14:50 - 15:40 Elton Dusha (Diego Portales University)
Reputational concerns in directed search markets with adverse selection
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Fourth session
Chair: Gaston Chaumont
16:00 - 16:50 Matias Marzani (Washington University in St. Louis)
Firm growth, finance and development
joint with Paco Buera (Washington University in St. Louis) and Francesca Crucitti (University of Pavia)
16:50 - 17:40 Sewon Hur (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
On the distributional effects of international tariffs
joint with Daniel Carroll (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)