JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10805)

N - Economic History (880)

N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income, and Wealth (279)

N36 - Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income and Wealth: Latin America; Caribbean (16) Year LSE creators Item Type Departments File available

A

Fierro, Pedro, Aravena-Gonzalez, Ignacio, Aroca, Patricia, Rowe, Francisco (2024). Geographies of discontent: measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021). Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 17(2), 275 - 291. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae004 picture_as_pdf

Pessino, Carola, Rasteletti, Alejandro, Artana, Daniel, Lustig, Nora (2023). Distributional effects of taxation in Latin America. (III Working Papers 118). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.ph498w6a5zuu picture_as_pdf

B

Banks, William (2021). When did Chile fall asleep? An assessment of national and regional income inequality in Chile, 1973-1990. (Prize-winning Student Working Papers 6). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Bleynat, Ingrid, Challú, Amílcar, Segal, Paul (2020). Inequality, living standards and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico. (III Working Paper 46). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.8q3m0qvbargp picture_as_pdf

Bleynat, Ingrid, Challú, Amílcar E., Segal, Paul (2021). Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico†. Economic History Review, 74(3), 584 - 610. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13027 picture_as_pdf

Bloeck, Martín Caruso, Ibarrarán, Pablo, Galiani, Sebastian (2019). Long-term care in Latin America and the Caribbean: theory and policy considerations. Economía, 20(1), 1 - 32. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2019.0006 picture_as_pdf

Fierro, Pedro, Rivera, Sebastian, Brieba, Daniel (2026). The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation. Territory, Politics, Governance, 14(1), 42 - 65. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2024.2435888 picture_as_pdf

D

Gonzalez Alvaredo, Facundo, De Rosa, Mauricio, Flores, Ignacio, Morgan, Marc (2025). The inequality (or the growth) we measure: data gaps and the distribution of incomes. (III Working Paper 152). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

F

Faguet, Jean-Paul, Matajira, Camilo, Sánchez, Fabio (2024). Encomienda, the colonial state, and long-run development in Colombia. picture_as_pdf

Faguet, Jean-Paul, Matajira, Camilo, Sánchez, Fabio (2017). Is extraction bad? Encomienda and development in Colombia since 1560. (Documentos Cede). Universidad de los Andes.

Faguet, Jean-Paul, Matajira, Camilo, Sánchez, Fabio (2025). Encomienda, the colonial state, and long-run development in Colombia. The Economic Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf108 [In Press] picture_as_pdf

Lora, Eduardo, Fajardo, Johanna (2013). Latin American middle classes: the distance between perception and reality. Economía, 14(1), 33 - 60. https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.98 picture_as_pdf

G

Galiani, Sebastian, Schargrodsky, Ernesto (2002). Evaluating the impact of school decentralization on educational quality. Economía, 2(2), 275 - 302. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2002.0004 picture_as_pdf

Galli, Stefania, Theodoridis, Dimitrios, Rönnbäck, Klas (2023). Economic inequality in Latin America and Africa, 1650 to 1950: can a comparison of historical trajectories help to understand underdevelopment? Economic History of Developing Regions, 38(1), 41 - 64. https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.2024073 picture_as_pdf

Gavira, Alejandro (2007). Social mobility and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Economía, 8(1), 55 - 88. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2008.0003 picture_as_pdf

M

McKenzie, David, Schargrodsky, Ernesto (2011). Buying less but shopping more: the use of nonmarket labor during a crisis. Economía, 11(2), 1 - 35. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2011.0004 picture_as_pdf