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Skills and Selection into Teaching: Evidence from Latin America
(Economía LACEA Journal (e-ISSN: 1533-6239), 2023-11-22)
This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have low levels
of cognitive skills. This fact is the result of both low levels of skills among the population
and—in the case of numeracy—a gap ...
Visitas culturales transatlánticas de fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX: propuestas y posibilidades metodológicas para su estudio
(Revista de Historia de América (e-ISSN 2663-371X), 2024-01-10)
En este ensayo presento algunas reflexiones y propuestas acerca de cómo
estudiar “visitas culturales”, noción que he propuesto en un libro colectivo
publicado en 2014.La misma intenta ofrecer alternativas y complementa ...
Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries
(Nature Human Behaviour (e-ISSN: 2397-3374), 2024-06-14)
Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is
highly context dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some
cases, but whether this computational constraint on valuation is a
shared feature ...
Outcome context-dependence is not WEIRD: Comparing reinforcementand description- based economic preference worldwide
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023-03-02)
Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is highly context-dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some cases. But whether this computational constraint on valuation is a shared feature of human ...
Promoting Erroneous Divergent Opinions Increases the Wisdom of Crowds
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024)
The aggregation of many lay judgements generates surprisingly accurate estimates. This phenomenon,
called the “wisdom of crowds”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision making and
financial forecasting. ...
Promoting Erroneous Divergent Opinions Increases the Wisdom of Crowds
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-06-12)
The aggregation of many lay judgments generates surprisingly accurate estimates. This phenomenon, called the “wisdom of crowds,” has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making and financial forecasting. ...
Después de la delegación: la retracción de la autonomía legislativa del poder ejecutivo en Argentina
(Revista de Ciencia Política (ISSN: 0718-090X), 2020-01)
En este artículo presentamos un nuevo concepto, desacoplamiento ejecutivo, el cual describe una reducción en la capacidad del Poder Ejecutivo para modificar unilateralmente la legislación existente. En este trabajo mostramos ...
Internationalization of Higher Education in Argentina upon the Arrival of COVID-19: Reactions and Lessons from the Perspective of International Relations Office
(Springer, 2023-07-20)
The interdependence between countries in relation to the production and transfer of knowledge has grown steadily since the 1980s. As a result, in the past two decades the number of students crossing borders to pursue an ...
Mining Reasons For And Against Vaccination From Unstructured Data Using Nichesourcing and AI Data Augmentation
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-06-28)
We present Reasons For and Against Vaccination (RFAV), a dataset for predicting reasons for and against vaccination, and scientific authorities used to justify them, annotated through nichesourcing and augmented using GPT4 ...
Money and lies: proxy respondents and the mismeasurement of income in surveys
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Gobierno, 2024-07)
When sampled individuals are not found at home, many surveys rely on a proxy
respondent: another knowledgeable household member. We study the difference
between self- and proxy-reported labor income in Mexico. We use the ...