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When did Argentina lose its mojo? A short note on economic divergence
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Gobierno, 2024-04)
Based on long series of per capita GDPs, we characterize the economic divergence of
Argentina in the 20th century relative to a group of countries with comparable initial income
per capita. We find the divergence to be ...
The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaCorporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), 2022-06)
We study the impact of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity
in the context of public school teachers in Chile. We take advantage of a law that required education
administrators to grant a ...
Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2023)
The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, ...
Democracia y Educación Escolar: Concepciones de estudiantes, docentes y directivos de escuelas argentinas a 40 años de la recuperación democrática
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Gobierno, 2023-10)
A 40 años de la estabilidad democrática en la Argentina resulta de interés conocer los modos en que la
sociedad concibe la democracia, dado que las concepciones condicionan la valoración y los modos de
actuar. En particular ...
Boletín de Investigación Ditelliano n°5
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024)
La Universidad Torcuato Di Tella es una universidad de
investigación cuya misión es contribuir al avance del
conocimiento, y a la búsqueda de la excelencia intelectual,
científica y artística dentro de un marco de ...
Investigating symptom duration using current status data: a case study of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome
(Arxiv, 2024-07-05)
For infectious diseases, characterizing symptom duration is of clinical and public health importance. Symptom duration may be assessed by surveying infected individuals and querying symptom status at the time of survey ...
Principal´s time management: agenda priorities and challenges for school leaders
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Gobierno, 2024-04)
During the past years, the responsibilities, job intensification and workload of school
principals have increased. Since school leadership is a key factor for improving learning, in this
study we seek to understand which ...
On the Robustness of Mixture Models in the Presence of Hidden Markov Regimes with Covariate-Dependent Transition Probabilities
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-06)
We consider general hidden Markov models that may include exogenous co-
variates and whose discrete-state-space regime sequence has transition prob-
abilities that are functions of observable variables. We show that the ...