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PUBLICATIONS:

The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay: Introduction to the Special Issue

PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• “Declining Wages for College-Educated Workers in Mexico: Are Younger or Older Cohorts Hurt the Most?” Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, Luis F. Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig. Revista de Economía Mundial 43. p. 93-112. September 2016.

• “Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States.” Review of Income and Wealth, 62, S22-46, 2016.  (With Sean Higgins, Whitney Ruble and Tim Smeeding)

• “Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala” Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig, and Hilcías Morán. World Development. Vol. 76. p. 263-279. December 2015.
• “Can a Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor?” Sean Higgins and Nora Lustig. CEQ Working Paper No. 33. April 8 2015.
• “The Redistributive Impact of Government Spending on Education and Health Evidence From Thirteen Developing Countries in the Commitment to Equity Project”. Nora Lustig. CEQ Working Paper No. 30. March 2015.
• “El Impacto de los Impuestos y el Gasto Social en la Desigualdad y la Pobreza en El Salvador” Margarita Beneke, Nora Lustig, José Andrés Oliva. CEQ Working Paper No. 26. March 2015.
• “The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy in South Africa” Gabriela Inchauste, Nora Lustig, Mashekwa Maboshe, Catriona Purfield and Ingrid Woolard. CEQ Working Paper no. 29. February 2015.
• “Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States“ Review or Public Wealth. Submitted November 2014. By Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig, Whitney Ruble, and Timothy Smeeding.
• “The Strugglers: New Poor in Latin America?” Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, and Christian Meyer.World Development. Vol. 60. p. 132-146. August 2014.
• “Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina in the 2000s: The Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions” Nora Lustig and Carola Pessino. CEQ Working Paper No. 5. January 2013 (revised July 2013).
• “Social Spending, Taxes, and Income Redistribution in Uruguay” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6380. March 2013. (Coauthors Marisa Bucheli, Maximo Rossi, Florencia Amábile.
• The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. Introduction to Special Issue,” in Public Finance Review, May 2014, Volume 42, Issue 3, published online November 20, 2013, (Coauthor with Carola Pessino and John Scott)
• Latin America’s Inequality Success Story: The Case of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico,” Current History, Vol. 112, Issue 751, 64, February 2013. (By invitation)
• “Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico,” World Development, Vol. 44, 129-141, 2013. (Lead author with Luis F. López-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez)
• El mercado laboral, el Estado y la dinámica de la desigualdad en América Latina: Brasil, México y Uruguay,” Article prepared for Pensamiento Iberoamericano, No. 10, June 2012. (Coauthor with López-Calva, Luis Felipe)
• Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: what do we gain and what do we lose? An introduction to JOEI Forum on multidimensional poverty,” Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol 9, No. 2, 227-234, June 2011,

For an extended list of all publications prior to 2011, download the C.V.

BOOK CHAPTERS/CONTRIBUTIONS:

• “Basta Ya, Chilean Students Say ‘Enough’,” Chapter in Janet Bryne, The Occupy Handbook, (Coauthor with Alejandra Mizala and Eduardo Silva) April 2012.
• “Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?” (Coeditor with Luis F. López-Calva), Brookings Institution Press and UNDP, 2010.
  • Forward
  • Table of Contents 
  • Chapter 1: “Explaining the Decline in Inequality in Latin America: Technological Change, Educational Upgrading, and Democracy,” 1-24. (Coauthor with Luis F. López-Calva)
  • Chapter 7: “Mexico: A Decade of Falling Inequality: Market Forces or State Action?” 175-217. (Coauthor with Gerardo Esquivel and John Scott)
• Los determinantes de la disminución de la desigualdad en América Latina,” in Devlin, Robert, Oscar A. Echeverría and José Luis Machinea, editors, América Latina en una era de globalización. Ensayos en honor de Enrique V. Iglesias, Edición Cero, CAF, Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina, 2014. (lead author with Luis F. López-Calva and Eduardo Ortíz Juárez)
• The Knowledge Bank and Poverty Reduction,” Chapter in Amar Bhattacharya and Domenico Lombardi, eds., The Future of the World Bank, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• “Latin America’s Economic Challenges: Lessons for Emerging Economies,” Chapter in Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap: Challenges facing the Chinese economy, 2012-2030, Juzhong Zhuang, Yiping Huang, and Paul Vandenberg, eds., Submitted to Oxford University Press, forthcoming. (Title of book subject to change) (Coauthor with Jaime Ros)
• Commitment to equity: a diagnostic framework to assess government’s fiscal policy,” Chapter 10 in Kanbur, Ravi, Changyong Rhee, and Juzhong Zhuang Inequality in Asia and the Pacific. Trends, Drivers and Policy Implications, Asian Development Bank and Routledge, 2014. (First author with Sean Higgins)
• Scholars Who Became Practitioners: the Influence of Research on the Design, Evaluation and Political Survival of Mexico’s Anti-Poverty Program,” Chapter in Mariano E. Bertucci and Abraham F. Lowenthal, eds., Building Bridges: Scholars, Policymakers and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, forthcoming.
• “The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989–2010,” Chapter 7 in Giovanni Andrea Cornia, ed., Falling Inequality in Latin America: Policy Changes and Lesssons, WIDER Studies in Development Economics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, January 2014. (Coauthor with Raymundo Campos and Gerardo Esquivel)

BOOK REVIEWS: 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

• El impacto de los impuestos y el gasto social en la desigualdad y la pobreza en El Salvador. Margarita Beneke, Nora Lustig, Jose Andres Oliva. CEQ Working Paper No. 26. March 2015.
• CEQ Policy Assessment: Guatemala. Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig, Hilcías E. Morán. Commitment to Equity, Tulane University, The Inter-American Dialogue, CIPR. August 2104.
• “Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) Handbook: Estimating the Incidence of Social Spending, Subsidies, and Taxes“. Nora Lustig and Sean Higgins. Commitment to Equity, Tulane University, The Inter-American Dialogue, CIPR. September 2013.
• “Is Argentina’s Cash Transfer Program for the Poor Working?” The Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor. June 14, 2013.
• “Is Argentina A Model of Redistributive Policies?” Nora Lustig and Carola Pessino. April 1 2013.
• “How Much Redistribution Does Uruguay Accomplish Through Social Spending and Taxes?” Marisa Bucheli, Nora Lustig, Máximo Rossi, Florencia Amábile, April 1, 2013.
• “How Committed to Equity are Latin American Governments? The Impact of Social Spending and Taxes on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay” Nora Lustig. April 1 2013.
• “World Development Publication: Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico” September 2012. 
  • During 2000–10, the Gini coefficient declined in 13 of 17 Latin American countries. The decline was statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In depth country studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled labor and more progressive government transfers. The fall in the premium to skills resulted from a combination of supply, demand, and institutional factors. Their relative importance depends on the country.
• The Decline in Inequality in Latin America: Policies, Politics, or Luck?, by Nora Lustig. Americas Quarterly. November 2011.
• Committee on World Food Security, High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition. “Social protection for food security,“June 2012.
  • As part of the reform of the World Committee on Food Security (CFS), the High-level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) was established in 2010, for providing credible science and knowledge based advice to underpin policy formulation. Nora Lustig was a member of the team that wrote the report.
• Economic Growth and Equity (published in Spanish: Crecimiento Economico y Equidad), edited by Nora Lustig; El Colegio de Mexico (2010). 
  • This new text analyzes the impact of Mexico’s macroeconomic, trade and social policies on per capita income growth, inequality and poverty.
• Markets, the State and the Dynamics of Inequality in Latin America: a multi-country/multi-year project exploring the links between inequality, markets and state intervention in Latin America. 
  • Through country-specific analytical narratives and lessons learnt from advanced countries, this project analyzes the interactions between markets, public policy and politics in shaping the evolution of inequality. In particular, it focuses on the causes of the pervasive decline in inequality observed in the last decade. The project received funding from UNDP.

• “Protecting Latin America’s Commitment to Equity,” Policy Brief No. 2, Inter-American Dialogue, February 2010. ¿Cómo se puede proteger a la población pobre durante las crisis económicas? Lecciones del pasado.” Síntesis 2, Diálago Interamericano, Febrero 2010.
• “The Curse of Volatile Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World,” in Natural Resources and Development (Mavrotas, George, editor) Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham: UK, forthcoming.