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Strategies to increase the take-up of social benefits. Evidence from a field experiment in a deeply vulnerable population
(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 ...
Uncertain penalties and compliance
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2019)
We present the results of a series of laboratory economic experiments designed to study compliance behavior of polluting firms when information on the penalty is uncertain. The experiments consist of a regulatory environment ...
Spatial spillovers in the implicit market price of soil erosion: an estimation using a spatio-temporal hedonic model
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2019)
We estimate the implicit market price of soil erosion, fitting a spatio-temporal hedonic price model using quarterly data of 3,563 agricultural farms traded in Uruguay between 2000 and 2014. A unique feature of our estimation ...
Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomized evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay
(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 ...
New information and inflation expectations among firms
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2019)
Using data from a unique and novel monthly firm-level survey on inflation expectations in Uruguay we first present stylized facts about the inflation expectation formation process and then show how information acquisition ...
Mandatory helmet use and the severity of motorcycle accidents: no brainer?
(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 ...