Browsing Universidad Torcuato Di Tella by Author "Ajzenman, Nicolás"

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    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...