Documentos de Trabajo: Recent submissions

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    • More Than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior during a Pandemic 

      Ajzenman, Nicolás; Cavalcanti, Tiago; Da Mata, Daniel (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de GobiernoCentro para la Evaluación de Políticas basadas en Evidencia (CEPE), 2020-05)
      This paper investigates whether the anti-scientific rhetoric of modern populists can induce followers to engage in risky behavior. We gather electoral information, credit card expenses, and geo-localized mobile phone data ...

    • Exposure toTransit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship 

      Ajzenman, Nicolás; Guriev, Sergei; Aksoy, Cevat Giray (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2020-04)
      Does exposure to mass migration affect the attitudes and economic behavior of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 and 2016 rounds of the Life ...

    • Specificity of human capital: Occupation and industry spaces based on job-to-job transitions 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Montané, Martín (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-04)
      Using job transition data from Argentina’s Household Survey, we document the extent to which human capital is specific to occupations and activities. Based on workers’ propensity to move between occupations/industries, ...

    • Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment 

      Ajzenman, Nicolás; Durante, Ruben (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019-09)
      Can seemingly unimportant factors influence voting decisions by making certain issues salient? We study this in the context of Argentina’s 2015 presidential elections by examining how the infrastructure quality of the ...

    • Is the Remedy Worse Than the Disease? The Impact of Teacher Remediation on Teacher and Student Performance in Chile 

      Lombardi, María (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019-09)
      I study the impact of remedial training for low-performing teachers in Chile. Taking advantage of the fact that assignment to remediation is mainly based on teacher evaluation scores, I use a fuzzy regression discontinuity ...

    • What works for Active Labor Market Policies? 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Montané, Martín; Sartorio, Lucas (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019-07)
      The past 5 years have witnessed a flurry of RCT evaluations that shed new light on the impact and cost effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) aiming to improve workers´ access to new jobs and better wages. ...

    • How econometrics can help us understand the effects of climate change on crop yields: the case of soybeans 

      Ahumada, Hildegart; Cornejo, Magadalena (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019)
      Climate econometrics is a new field which is providing a fruitful approach to give a rigorous basis for many hypotheses related to climate change. With this aim, this chapter illustrates how econometrics can help understand ...