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Protestant Doctrinal Heterodoxy and Heterogeneity in Guatemala 1880s to 1950s
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Pentecostalism disrupted the U.S. religion market. Charismatic beliefs and practices, particularly the...
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Does Green Infrastructure Work? Precipitation, Protected Areas, Floods and Landslides
We evaluate whether floods and landslides are more likely when rain falls inside versus outside protected areas (PAs). We use monthly municipality...
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Government spending efficiency in Latin America
We assess public spending efficiency of 20 Latin American countries over the period of 2000–2019, computing data envelopment analysis efficiency...
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Polycentric systems for spectrum management: the case of Indigenous and tribal spectrum sovereignty
We extend the law and economics analysis of spectrum management by considering the economic case for Indigenous and tribal spectrum sovereignty. We...
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The CAFTA-DR Free Trade Agreement — Analyzing its effects in a modern gravity framework
We study the effects of the Dominican Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), signed in 2004, on the trade flows of...
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With Liberty and Health Everything Is Possible in This World
Gloria Alvarez is a Guatemalan Libertarian with Cuban and Hungarian roots. She studied at the libertarian university Francisco Marroquin...
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Innovation and Firm Productivity in Central America
This study examined the relationship between firm innovation and firm productivity in five Central American countries, namely, Ecuador, El Salvador,...
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International Banana Trade: Volumes, Countries, and Trends
In this research paper, the authors analyzed changes in the 2000–2021 physical volumes and trends of international trade in bananas, identified the...
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Economic Reform Priorities and the Governance Trap
This chapter studies the major macroeconomic sectors of the Northern Triangle countries, including fiscal policy, monetary and exchange rate policy,...
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Toward an Understanding of Obsidian Values Among the Ancient Maya Through a Comparative Approach
In this chapter I explore a variety of metrics that might be useful for examining obsidian values over time and space in Mesoamerica, and perhaps...
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Protestants and Catholics and Educational Investment in Guatemala
Recent empirical research on the relation of religion to human capital has focused on the distinction between Mainline Protestantism and Catholicism....
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Chronotopic Value: Objects and Meaning Through Mesoamerican Timespace
This chapter takes an approach to the social itinerary of things that attends to the spatio-temporally contextualized significance that things...
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From the Abundance of Waters to the Scarcity of Studies: Contemplating Hydropolitics in Mexico-Guatemala and Mexico-Belize Borders
Facing the paradox of the borders of Mexico with Guatemala and Belize, through which most of Mexico and Guatemala water resources flow, versus the...
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From the Northern Triangle to Northern Europe: How Good Governance Can Rescue Central America
The Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are stuck in “governance traps” in which economic informality, violence and...
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On the use of hypothetical price data to estimate hedonic models in a develo** country context
Given the lack of market-based property price data in develo** countries, imputed rental prices have been recently used to estimate the implicit...
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Gender Gaps and Family Leaves in Latin America
Gender equality in the labor market remains a difficult challenge in Latin America and recent literature shows that child penalties play an important...
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Esca** the Governance Trap Economic Reform in the Northern Triangle
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the global economic landscape, with the smallest and most vulnerable economies particularly hard hit....
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Who Follows the Elephant Will Have Problems: Thought on Modelling Roman Responses to Climate (Changes)
Emerging societal complexity is closely linked to water systems within archaeology. When studying water-based societies, climate is usually...
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China and Central America
The argument in this chapter is that the shared economic and strategic interests of China and Central American countries lie in a medium-term...
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The role of children and work-from-home in gender labor market asymmetries: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America
Asymmetry in childcare responsibilities is one of the main reasons behind gender gaps in the labor market. In that context, the ability to work from...
