Argentina

Argentina's 2017 tax reform demonstrates that even well-designed, carefully negotiated fiscal reforms can fail to deliver results if they lack the political credibility needed to convince investors and firms that the changes will endure.

Drawing on the first comparable, country-level evidence base from Argentina, Colombia, Ghana, India, Mexico, and South Africa, the IEA documents significant variation in where and how women exit the academic economics pipeline. The findings suggest t...

Investments in early education can generate strong long-run human-capital and demographic gains in middle-income countries. New evidence shows that Argentina’s large-scale expansion of pre-primary education in the 1990s substantially increased comple...

Compulsory military service in Argentina strengthened national identity and social integration in the long run, but had no meaningful effect on civic behaviour, institutional trust, or broader socio-economic outcomes, demonstrating that nation-buildi...

Repeated increases in the real minimum wage in early-2000s Argentina – implemented amid moderate inflation and an economic recovery – did not lead to higher job destruction as firms were able to absorb higher costs without resorting to terminations.

Argentina’s volatile macroeconomic and political environment – marked by inflation, debt crises, and policy instability – makes it difficult to commit to the long-term investments needed for climate adaptation, despite the country’s high vulnerabilit...

Both sanctions and social norms reduced fare evasion at metro stations in Buenos Aires, but only the latter increased accountability-seeking. What does this mean for civic engagement in developing countries?

Novel administrative data reveal that firms share a significant amount of rents with temporary workers, but less than with their permanent employees

Temp agency workers in Argentina receive 49% of the workplace-specific pay premia earned by regular workers in user firms