This publication, produced in collaboration between JOI Brazil, a J-PAL LAC initiative, and the Inter-American Development Bank, analyzes the available evidence on job search assistance programs and discusses their implications for public policy formulation in Brazil. Difficulties in communicating skills, lack of information about the job market, behavioral biases, and geographic and financial limitations may constitute some of the challenges faced by workers in the job search process.

Over 30 percent of female workers are self-employed across Latin America, relying on this mode of work for subsistence. Self-employment in the region is regularly marked by the absence of health insurance and lack of pension benefits. Despite the aspirations of many women to gain access to these benefits, they are persistently overrepresented among the socially unprotected part of the workforce. To address this issue and explore potential solutions, we conducted a laboratory experiment in Bolivia to assess the efficacy of nudges to influence the behavior of self-employed women.

This publication, co-authored by JOI Brazil, a J-PAL LAC initiative, and the Inter-American Development Bank analyzes the available evidence on microcredit programs and discusses their implications for public policy formulation in Brazil. Microcredit programs can be a tool to help entrepreneurs overcome financial constraints by providing access to small loans aimed at fostering growth and alleviating poverty through increased income-generating opportunities.

This publication, co-authored by JOI Brazil, a J-PAL LAC initiative, and the Inter-American Development Bank analyzes the available evidence on microcredit programs and discusses their implications for public policy formulation in Brazil. Microcredit programs can be a tool to help entrepreneurs overcome financial constraints by providing access to small loans aimed at fostering growth and alleviating poverty through increased income-generating opportunities.

Over the past decade, migration flows in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have grown significantly, characterized by complex patterns of origin, transit, destination, and return migration. This has deeply impacted families, particularly young children (aged 0 to 5). Parental migration has mixed effects on children left behind: while increased family income can provide benefits, the absence of parents may harm their emotional and cognitive development.

Over the past decade, migration flows in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have grown significantly, characterized by complex patterns of origin, transit, destination, and return migration. This has deeply impacted families, particularly young children (aged 0 to 5). Parental migration has mixed effects on children left behind: while increased family income can provide benefits, the absence of parents may harm their emotional and cognitive development.

We examine the impact of public hospitals openings in Mexico on maternal and neonatal mortality. Using administrative data from 2001 to 2019 and taking advantage of the variation in the timing of the opening of public hospitals across Mexican municipalities, we estimate a staggered difference-in-differences (DiD) model using the Callaway and SantAnna (2021) (CS) estimator. In doing so, we compare municipalities where a public hospital started to operate to municipalities without a hospital in operation, before and after the opening.