Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Montevideo: Envíos recientes
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Spiritual practices and dispositional optimism in an underprivileged population
(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 ... -
Whistleblowers on the board? The role of independent directors in cartel prosecutions
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2017)Stock market reactions to news of cartel prosecutions are muted when indicted firms have a high proportion of independent directors serving on their boards. This finding is robust to self-selection and is more pronounced ... -
The variance upper bound for a mixed random variable
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2017)In this note, we derive upper bounds on the variance of a mixed random variable. Our results are an extension of previous results for unimodal and symmetric random variables. The novelty of our findings is that this mixed ... -
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 ... -
Gender differences to relative performance feedback: a field experiment in education
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2017)Individuals care about both their absolute performance and their performance relative to others. For example, workers satisfaction is affected not only by their nominal wage but also by the comparison of their salaries ... -
Frequency of testing. Lessons from a field experiment in higher education
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2017)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of frequent testing on the performance of undergraduate freshmen. Methodology: The impact evaluation of the intervention is designed as a field experiment ... -
The deterrence effect of linear versus convex penalties in environmental policy: laboratory evidence
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2017)We study the individual compliance behavior of polluting firms in an experimental setting under two different penalty functions (a linear and a strictly convex) and two different regulatory ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Capital structure under collusion
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2016)We study the financial leverage of firms that collude by forming a cartel. We find that cartel firms have lower leverage ratios during collusion periods, consistent with the idea that reductions in ... -
Meet the oligarchs: business legitimacy, state capacity and taxation
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2016)We study the impact of two dimensions of trust, namely trust in business elites and trust in government, on policy preferences. Using a randomized online survey, we find that our two treatments ... -
Getting polluters to yell the truth
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2006)We study the problem of a regulator who must control the emissions of a given pollutant from a series of industries when the firms’ abatement costs are unknown. We develop a mechanism in which the regulator asks firms to ... -
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 ... -
Deporte y resiliencia en población juvenil de alta vulnerabilidad
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2016)Usando una base de datos inédita, creada a partir de cuestionarios administrados a una población de contexto crítico, este trabajo busca medir el impacto de un programa de prevención de violencia adolescente a través del ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Whistleblowers on the board? The role of independent directors in cartel prosecutions
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2015)Stock market reactions to news of cartel prosecutions are muted when indicted firms have a highproportion of independent directors serving on their boards. This finding is robust to self-selectionand is more pronounced ...