• Mandatory helmet use and the severity of motorcycle accidents: no brainer? 

      Blanco, Magdalena; Cabrera, José María; Carozzi, Felipe; Cid, Alejandro (Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2019)
      We study the impact of mandatory motorcycle helmet use laws on the severity and volume of road accidents in Uruguay by exploiting a change in the enforcement of the traffic law. Using event-study, differences-in-difference ...
    • 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 ...