United States, Sept. 9 -- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced the winners of the 2025 IDB Young Economist Award, an annual recognition that celebrates outstanding research by recent PhD graduates in economics focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. Daniel Jaramillo Calderon, an Ecuadorian economist from the Paris School of Economics, won second prize for his analysis of how former convicts influenced crime rates in their neighborhoods following a mass amnesty in Ecuador.The third prize was awarded to Renata Motta Cafe, a Brazilian economist from the Getulio Vargas Foundation who is currently a fiscal policy specialist at the IDB, for her evaluation of how access to government-backed loans affects municipal public spe...