About the Authors

Déborah Martínez

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, United States of America

Cristina Parilli

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IDB Invest, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, United States of America

Carlos Scartascini

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

carlossc@iadb.org

Affiliation Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, United States of America

Alberto Simpser

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Political Science Department, ITAM, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests. The Inter-American Development Bank and ITAM provided support in the form of salaries for all the authors, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. The authors affiliations does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as it is articulated in the ‘Methods’ and ‘Additional information’ sections.