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De la "escuela-palacio" al "templo del saber". Edificios para la educación moderna en Buenos Aires, 1884-1902
(Entrepasados. Revista de Historia (ISSN 0327-649X)Entrepasados. Revsta de Historia" (ISSN 0327-649X), 2000)
Con la sanción en 1884 de la Ley 1420 de educación primaria, obligatoria, gratuita y laica, el estado se hacía cargo de una cuestión estratégica del proyecto de modernización: la construcción de la identidad nacional en ...
Crime and violence: Desensitization in victims to watchingcriminal events
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization (e-ISSN: 1879-1751), 2019)
We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts
to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological
markers of stress and behavioral indices ...
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 ...
Yankee merchants in South America: narratives, identity, and social order, 1810-1870
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1993)
American merchants in nineteenth-century South America acted
as universal mediators in the world of commodities. Their specific
function provided the navigational, commercial, and financial links
that connected South ...
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 ...
Great Britain and the recognition of the River Plate
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1993)
The recognition of Argentine independence was granted by the British government in early 1825. The Liverpool
Ministry, which was in power in Britain at that time, was thus responsible for becoming the first European nation ...
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, ...