Ariel Kalil Keynote Speaker, Professor
University of Chicago, The Harris School of Public Policy

Ariel Kalil is a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. At Harris, she directs the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy and co-directs the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab. She also holds appointments as an adjunct professor in the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway and in the School of Business Administration at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is a developmental psychologist who studies economic conditions, parenting, and child development. Her current research examines the historical evolution of income-based gaps in parenting behavior and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

Alejandro Izquierdo Director, Chief Economist and Manager of the Research Department
Inter-American Development Bank

Juan Vargas is a research economist in the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and held various academic and scholar positions in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. His research focuses on the political economy of conflict and the economic determinants of crime and violence.

Guillermo Vuletin Special Guest, Senior Economist, Latin America and Caribbean
World Bank

Guillermo Vuletin is a Senior Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Bank. He is also a Non-resident Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, a Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland in 2007 and an undergraduate degree and a MA in Economics from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was a Lead Economist in the Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Diego Vera Cossio Targeting credit through community members, Inter-American Development Bank

Sara Esfahani Agricultural Misallocation: Mismeasurement, Misspecification, or Market Frictions?, Sam Houston State University

Darwin Ugarte Cognitive Bias in Insurance: Evidence from India, Universidad Privada Boliviana

Alfonso Finot The Impacts of Trade Facilitation Measures on International Trade Flows: An application to Central America, Universidad de Chile

Cristian Ugarte On the heterogeneous effects of market-access barriers: Evidence from small and large Peruvian exporters, University of Geneva

Rodrigo Garcia Ayala Automation, Global Value Chains and the Future of Work in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing, Harvard KSG

Matthew Collin Peer Effects in the Demand for Property Rights: Experimental Evidence from Urban Tanzania, World Bank

Maria del Pilar Lopez Uribe Buying off the Revolution: Evidence from the Colombian National Peasant Movement, 1957-1985, Universidad de los Andes-LSE

Miguel Niño-Zarazua Campaign Externalities, Programmatic Spending, and Voting Preferences in Rural Mexico: The Case of Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme, UNU-WIDER

Liliana Serrate Does Conditional Cash Transfer incentivize the use of Health Services? The Case of Bolivia, CAINCO

Marianna Battaglia Family Planning and Child Health Care: Evidence from a Permanent Aggressive Intervention, Universidad de Alicante

Ryoko Sato Backfire Effect of Salient Information on Vaccine Take-up: Evidence from Scared-Straight Intervention in Rural Northern Nigeria, Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health

Victor Gamarra Echenique The Unsustainable Local Effects of Extractives Industries: Boom and Bust Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine, Universidad del Pacífico

Pablo Cuba Borda What Explains the Great Recession and the Slow Recovery?, Federal Reserve Board

Luis Carlos Jemio Ciclos Economicos y Vulnerabilidad Externa en America Latina, INESAD

Julio Aguirre How effective are protected natural areas when roads are present? An analysis of the Peruvian case, Universidad del Pacífico

Dany Jaimovich Community-Driven Deforestation? Experimental Evidence From a Rural Development Program in West African drylands, Universidad de Talca

Luis Gonzales Energy Poverty and Welfare Effects, University of Chicago

Victor Gamarra Improved seeds as an escape from poverty? Quantitative and qualitative evidence for Peruvian Southern Andes, Universidad del Pacífico

Miguel Niño-Zarazua Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto, UNU-WIDER

Marcela Perticara After-School Effects on Students' Academic Outcomes: Evidence from Chile, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Benjamin Villena Roldan Deconstructing Job Search Behavior, Universidad de Chile

Fernando Rios-Avila It pays to Study for the right job: Exploring the causes and consequences of Education-Occupation job mismatch, Levy Economics Institute

Mauricio Tejada Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation, ILADES - Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Diego Vera Cossio Access to credit and productivity: Evidence from Thai Villages, Inter-American Development Bank

Carlos Foronda Análisis de las Características de la Innovación en Empresas y su Efecto en la Productividad en Bolivia, Universidad Privada Boliviana

Adriana Garcia Does Technical Assistance Improve Welfare of Farmers with Access to Microcredit? An Empirical Study in Bolivia, University of Groningen

Fernando Borraz The Role of Competition in Explaining Law of One Price Deviations, Universidad de la Republica and Banco Central del Uruguay

Rolando Caballero Martínez Volatilidad del Tipo de Cambio Nominal: Un Enfoque con Models con Cambio de Régimen para Bolivia, UNAM, CEMFI

Carlos Gustavo Machicado The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960-2015, INESAD

Fernando Rios-Avila A Semi-parametric approach to the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with continuous group variable and self-selection, Levy Economics Institute

Guillermo Avellán How Do Productivity, Minimum Wage And Exogenous Variables Affect Urban Unemployment In Ecuador?, Universidad Espíritu Santo

Pamela Cordova Olivera Gender, University Reputation and Formal Job Opportunities: Theoretical discussion and evidence from a correspondence experiment in Bolivia, Universidad Privada Boliviana

Joaquin Morales El Desarrollo y las Caracterí­sticas de La Economí­a Popular: Un Modelo Formal con Evidencia Etnográfica, Universidad Privada Boliviana

Evan Kresch The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector, Oberlin College

Gustavo Zarate Análisis de la Desigualdad de Largo Plazo en Bolivia. 1976-2012, Universidad Privada Boliviana

Antonio Saravia How Do Socio-Economic Conditions Matter for Socialist Indoctrination? The Case of Latin America's 21st Century Socialism, Mercer University

Pablo Mendieta A regional landscape of Bolivian economic growth, Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Santa Cruz

Marcos Agurto Academic Aptitude Assessment and Engineering Career Choices: A Regression Discontinuity Approach, Universidad de Piura

Alejandro Herrera Jiménez Setting an Example? Spillover Effects of Peruvian Magnet Schools, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

Hiromichi Morishita Are Contract Teachers Less Qualified?: Case of Benin, JICA

Martin Vallejos Efecto De La Inversion Extranjera En El Dinamismo Macroeconomico: Un Analisis Empirico Para Bolivia, Independiente

Edgar Villca Condori Eficiencia de la Inversión y Crecimiento económico: En un modelo de programación real, Investigador Independiente

Samuel Alarcon Repensando las Reglas Fiscales en America Latina , ILADES-Georgetown University

Diego Anzoategui How Much Long Run Economic Growth Happens at the Country Level?, Rutgers University

Elizabeth Bucacos Wealth, Economic Growth, Infrastructure And Productivity In Uruguay, 1955-2010, Banco Central del Uruguay

Guillermo Vuletin How Big are Public Investment Multipliers?, World Bank

Paola L. Montero Ledezma Disparidades geograficas versus disparidades en las habilidades de mujeres casadas en ciudades latinoamericanas, Universidad Privada Boliviana

Eduardo Zegarra Cambios en la conduccion femenina de la agricultura peruana 1994-2012: ¿empoderamiento o empobrecimiento de las agricultoras?, Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo - GRADE

Victor Gamarra Echenique Brechas de Género en la generacion de empleo? Impactos socioeconómicos de la mineri­a en la region de Arequipa, Peru, Universidad del Pacífico

Boris Branisa Una Mirada desde la Antropometría a la Evolución del Bienestar, INESAD

Luis Gonzales A progressiveness test for redistributions between generations and application to 3 countries, University of Chicago

Horacio Vera-Cossio La relacion entre recursos naturales y el desarrollo humano local, IISEC-UCB

Kristin Ranestad Formal education, practical learning and mining. An analysis of the career paths of mining workers in Norway with formal training from 1860 to 1940, University of Oslo and Lund University

Marc Badia Miró Mining exports in the long run: South America vs the Nordic Countries. 1880 – 2015, Universidad de Barcelona

José Peres-Cajías Taking off from Natural Resources: Fiscal dependence in comparative perspective, Universidad de Barcelona

Oscar Molina Tejerina Non-explained Wage Gaps at Tradable and Non-tradable Sector: Cross Section Evidence for Bolivia by Gender, Universidad Privada Boliviana

Beatriz Muriel What explains earnings gap gender in urban Bolivia?, INESAD

Melissa Loza Export Boom and Economic Performance: Bolivia 2004-2015, Universidad Privada Boliviana

Javier Aliaga Lordemann The Dynamic and non-linear Convergence of the Bolivian Energy-mix during the period 2000-2035, Universidad de Cartagena y ABCE

Alvaro Pedraza Morales Costly Index Investing in Foreign Markets, World Bank

Luis Gonzales Master Programs at the University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Mauricio Tejada Master Programs at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Universidad Alberto Hurtado