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    • Entre bibliotecas imaginarias y reales. Borges y la acumulación libresca 

      Salvatore, Ricardo D. (Variaciones Borges (e-ISSN: 1396-0482), 2024-04)
      En este ensayo, examino la relación entre Jorge Luis Borges, sus bibliotecas imaginarias y las bibliotecas reales en las que le tocó trabajar o dirigir. Me pregunto en qué medida la modernización de la Biblioteca ...

    • Skills and Selection into Teaching: Evidence from Latin America 

      Lombardi, María; Estrada, Ricardo (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 ...

    • The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity 

      Lombardi, María; Estrada, Ricardo (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 ...

    • The Potential Footprint of Plant- Based Meat Adoption on Leading Crop Producers 

      Merener, Nicolás (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023-12-30)
      Plant-based meat (PBM) has the potential to improve the global food supply chain on numerous environmental and societal dimensions. Some of these gains, derived from lower animal meat production, could disrupt the supply ...

    • Optimal Carbon Offsets with Heterogeneous Regions 

      Belfiori, Elisa; Macera, Manuel (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-02-08)
      We study optimal climate policy in a global economy where regions differ in wealth and vulnerability to climate change. Carbon emissions from production generate out- put losses - a negative climate externality - and a ...

    • Medios y política en 40 Años de democracia en Argentina 

      Kitzberger, Philip (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024)
      El texto analiza la interacción compleja entre los medios de comunicación y la política en Argentina durante las últimas cuatro décadas. En particular, considera la forma en que factores históricos y cambios en el campo ...

    • Human Capital Investment and Development: The Role of Onthe- Job Training 

      Nakab, Alejandro; Xiao, Ma; Vidart, Daniela (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaPeking UniversityUniversity of Connecticut, 2022)
      Workers in richer countries experience faster rates of wage growth over their lifetimes than workers in poorer countries. We offer an explanation for this pattern by showing that workers in richer economies receive more ...