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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 ...
The effects of social health insurance expansion and increased choice on perinatal health and health care use: lessons from the uruguayan health care reform
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2018)
In 2007 the Uruguayan government launched a reform aimed at expanding social healthinsurance to family-members of formal workers and to retirees. The policy increased insurance generosity -relative to the safety net ...
Social interactions in health behaviors and conditions
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2018)
We review the economic literature of the past 20 years on peer effects in health behaviors and conditions. We find consistent evidence of peer effects across a wide range of behaviors and outcomes (alcohol, body weight, ...
Positive parenting: babies and toddlers group-based parental interventions
(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 ...
Peer effects vs. parental influence in the development of capabilities in adolescence
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2016)
The past decade has witnessed the surge of a large body of research analyzing critical periods for investment in children’s skills. Most of this literature has underscored the importance of parental investments and of ...
Peer and parental influence in the development of cognitive skills and predispostion to risky behaviour
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2017)
This paper analyzes the strategic interactions between peers and parents in the development of adolescent’s cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills, as proxied by the predisposition to use substances. We estimate a ...
The effect of temporary and intense exposure to particulate matter on birth outcomes in Montevideo
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2015)
Background: Prior estimates of the correlation between ambient air pollutants’ concentrations and perinatal health show dispersion in magnitudes, as well as positive and negative signs. These differences may be partially ...
Aseguramiento público, provisión privada: impacto en el acceso a servicios perinatales y en la salud del recién nacido
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2015)
A partir del año 2008, con la implementación del Sistema Nacional Integrado de Salud, el gobierno uruguayo extendió el seguro social de salud a colectivos no amparados previamente. A diferencia de la cobertura pública, el ...
¿Son los cuidados prenatales efectivos?. Un enfoque con datos individuales de panel
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2013)
Objetivo: El reembolso de los proveedores del Sistema Nacional Integrado de Salud en Uruguay (SNIS) está sujeto parcialmente al cumplimiento de metas asistenciales. Entre estos objetivos figuran el inicio de los controles ...
Campaña antitabaco en uruguay: impacto en la decisión de dejar de fumar durante el embarazo y en el peso al nacer
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2014)
Background. In 2005, Uruguay instituted a nationwide tobacco control campaign that has resulted in a substantial decline in nationwide smoking rates. We sought to determine the quantitative contributions of each of the ...