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PCLA Newsletter | June 2026

New Research

For this month’s research highlights, we have:

  • “Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality“, by Diogo G. C. Britto (Bocconi University), Alexandre de Andrade Fonseca (Federal Revenue of Brazil), Paolo Pinotti...
8 days ago
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Do environmental constitutions protect the environment?

In 2011, a government road construction project deposited debris into the Vilcabamba River in Ecuador’s southern highlands, raising flood risks for nearby communities. Local residents, invoking a new constitutional provision that had entere...

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The Political Economy of Populism: Corruption, Institutions, and the Argentine Experiment

Last time we did an interview, we got the chance to ask Dora de Ampuero about Ecuador. This time, we are the interviewees. Nicolás and I were recently invited to appear on the Beating Sisyphus podcast, produced by the Cañizares Center for E...

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PCLA Newsletter | May 2026

New Research

For this month’s research highlights, we have:

  • “On the Sequencing of Economic and Political Reforms in Latin America“, by Robin Grier (Texas Tech University) and Kevin Grier (Texas Tech University), published in Journa...
a month ago
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Does privatizing healthcare management save lives?

Note: This is an adapted version of my recent article for Exame.

You may have clicked on this article because the title is provocative – and for good reason. The debate over public health in Latin America usually revolves around extreme s...

2 months ago
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  • JP Bastos

    PhD Ag. + Applied Economics, Texas Tech. Incoming Assist. Prof. at the University of Austin (UATX). I write about political economy and development.

  • Nicolás Cachanosky

    I'm an Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Free Enterprise at The University of Texas at El Paso.

  • Justin Callais

    Economist studying mobility, growth, and opportunity

  • Thomas Riveros

    Passionate about finance, emerging markets, and macroeconomics.

  • Leonel Regalado

    Ph.D. student in Agricultural and Applied Economics at Texas Tech University and a research assistant at the Free Market Institute. His research focuses on Migration and Entrepreneurship, and how institutions relate to these two topics.

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