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    • A new Labor Conflict Index for Argentina: Preliminary Findings 

      Judzik, Darío; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Montané, Martín (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021-02)
      Labor conflict has been broadly neglected by economists as a sociological issue with limited impact. In this paper, we present a new Labor Conflict Index based on the application of text mining techniques to media data, ...

    • Financial dollarization and de-dollarization in the new millennium 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021-01)
      Dollarization, in its many variants, is crucial to understanding Latin American macroeconomics, as well as that of many developing countries. This paper builds a new updated dataset on dollarization, reviews its evolution ...

    • Lockdown fatigue: The diminishing effects of quarantines on the spread of COVID-19 

      Goldstein, Patricio; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Sartorio, Lucas (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021)
      Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) have been for most countries the key policy instrument utilized to contain the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of ...

    • Dolarización y desdolarización financiera en el nuevo milenio 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-11)
      La dolarización, en sus múltiples variantes, es crucial para entender la macroeconomía latinoamericana, así como la de muchos países en desarrollo. Este estudio discute y repasa con datos su evolución desde 2000 en América ...

    • Will you marry me,later? Age-of-marriage laws and child marriage in Mexico 

      Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Lombardi, María (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-08)
      We provide empirical evidence on the impact of raising the minimum age of marriage to 18 years old on child marriage, early motherhood, and school enrollment in Mexico. Using a difference-in-differences model that takes ...

    • Skills and Selection into Teaching:Evidence from Latin America 

      Estrada, Ricardo; Lombardi, María (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-08)
      This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have very low levels of cognitive skills. This skills deficit is the result of both low levels of competencies among the population and a gap between ...

    • COVID-19 database 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Sartori, Ignacio (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-07)
      The COVID-19 database is a statistical package developed by the Center for the Evaluation of Evidence-Based Policies (CEPE). This dataset collects more than 50 indicators in more than 150 countries to consolidate them into ...