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Brecha de género en la educación secundaria
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2014)
En América Latina, el debate acerca de los resultados heterogéneos en educación formal se ha centrado en las diferencias entre pobres y ricos. Este foco ha guidado a los diseñadores de política. Existen, sin embargo, otras ...
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 ...
Giving a second chance: an after-school program in a shanty town interacted with parent type
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2012)
Mechanism design when players’ preferences and information coincide
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2016)
It is well known that when players have private information, vis a vis the designer, and their preferences coincide it is hard to implement the socially desirable outcome. We show that with arbitrarily small fines and ...
Beware: a woman is looking after your car
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2016)
There has been little research on the association between behaviors, gen-der and usufruct rights in informal settings. Using a unique database from an underprivileged population, who informally look after cars parked in ...
Justification of physical and verbal aggression in uruguayan children and adolescent
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2011)
This study examines the justification of aggressive acts in Uruguayan children and adolescents in
different social situations as a function of age and sex, as well as the effect of differences in
socioeconomic status ...
Relative deprivation and risky behaviors
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2013)
Relative deprivation has been associated with lower socialand job satisfaction as well as adverse health outcomes. Using Add Health data, we examine whethera student’srelative socioeconomic status (SES)has a direct effect ...
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 ...
Regular information and health: evidence from a field experiment with undergraduate students
(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 ...
Attitude polarization: theory and evidence
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2014)
Numerous experiments have demonstrated the possibility of attitude polarization.For instance, Lord, Ross & Leper (1979) found that death penalty advocates becamemore convinced of the deterrent e§ect of the death penalty ...