Listar por autor "Cid, Alejandro"
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Positive parenting: babies and toddlers group-based parental interventions
Antonaccio, Valentina; Balsa, Ana Inés; Cid, Alejandro (Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2017)Early childhood development is increasingly recognized as a key public issue. Parenting interventions form an important evidence-based strategy to foster infant-toddler cognitive and language skills, motor and socio-emotional ... -
Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomized evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay
Balsa, Ana Inés; Cid, Alejandro; Zardo, Ana Laura (Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2019)We conducted a randomized evaluation of three privately managed middle schools in Uruguay aimed at providing education opportunities to adolescents from low income socioeconomic status. At 3-year follow-up, treatment ... -
Regular information and health: evidence from a field experiment with undergraduate students
Bernatzky, Marianne; Cabrera, José María; Cid, Alejandro (Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2015)We run a randomized controlled trial with the aim of evaluating the effects of a health seminarcomplemented with weekly reminders on health outcomes. Our research design exploits the excess of applicants over the ... -
Spiritual practices and dispositional optimism in an underprivileged population
Arrieta, Gonzalo; Cid, Alejandro; Ponce de León, María Mercedes (Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2017)Optimism seems to foster the ability to manage adverse situations better - a finding especially relevant for disadvantaged populations. Employing a unique sample from a small underprivileged village, we study the association ... -
Strategies to increase the take-up of social benefits. Evidence from a field experiment in a deeply vulnerable population
Cid, Alejandro; Cabrera, José María; Bernatzky, Marianne; Ramírez-Michelena, María; Blanco, Magdalena (Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2019)This is the first paper to identify, using a field experiment, the effects of intense one-on-one assistance by a professional social worker on the take-up of social benefits within a population of deeply disadvantaged ... -
Violencia: caracterización de la población adolescente de instituciones educativas de la región Oeste de Montevideo en relación a la situación de violencia en la que viven
Fernández, Alicia; Giménez, Andrea; Lewy, Esther; Lozano, Fernanda; Olivera, Virginia; Cabrera, José María; Cid, Alejandro; Salas, Fernando; Hackembruch, Cecilia (Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2010)Todos los días en las páginas de los periódicos nacionales y en las noticias televisivas, leemos y escuchamos sobre actos de violencia que tienen como protagonistas a niños, niñas y adolescentes ya sea como víctimas o ...