Slowing Down, Heating Up: Economic Deceleration and Social Discontent in Latin America

There have been widespread public expressions of discontent throughout Latin America since the early 2010s. We exploit harmonized microdata from national household surveys covering nearly all Latin American countries to explore potential sources of discontent driven by income changes along the incom...

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Autores principales: Albina, Iván, Bracco, Jessica, Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos, Laguinge, Luis Alberto
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1787542025-05-07T20:22:08Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/178754 Slowing Down, Heating Up: Economic Deceleration and Social Discontent in Latin America Albina, Iván Bracco, Jessica Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos Laguinge, Luis Alberto 2025-05 2025-05-07T11:55:24Z en Ciencias Económicas discontent incomes inequality deceleration Latin America There have been widespread public expressions of discontent throughout Latin America since the early 2010s. We exploit harmonized microdata from national household surveys covering nearly all Latin American countries to explore potential sources of discontent driven by income changes along the income distribution. We also estimate fixed-effects models that link discontent measures to changes in household incomes. Our results suggest that discontent may stem less from absolute economic performance during the 2010s than from the significant deceleration relative to the previous decade. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Articulo Documento de trabajo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
discontent
incomes
inequality
deceleration
Latin America
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
discontent
incomes
inequality
deceleration
Latin America
Albina, Iván
Bracco, Jessica
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Laguinge, Luis Alberto
Slowing Down, Heating Up: Economic Deceleration and Social Discontent in Latin America
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
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incomes
inequality
deceleration
Latin America
description There have been widespread public expressions of discontent throughout Latin America since the early 2010s. We exploit harmonized microdata from national household surveys covering nearly all Latin American countries to explore potential sources of discontent driven by income changes along the income distribution. We also estimate fixed-effects models that link discontent measures to changes in household incomes. Our results suggest that discontent may stem less from absolute economic performance during the 2010s than from the significant deceleration relative to the previous decade.
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title_full Slowing Down, Heating Up: Economic Deceleration and Social Discontent in Latin America
title_fullStr Slowing Down, Heating Up: Economic Deceleration and Social Discontent in Latin America
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