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    • Leader over policy? The influence of political leaders on policy preferences 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Moscovich, Lorena; Abuin, Constanza (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2017-10)
      To extend the existing literature on political polarization beyond the traditional setup (an ideologically well-defined two-party setup), we run survey experiments in the great Buenos Aires area of Argentina to explore ...

    • How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets 

      Converse, Nathan; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Williams, Tomas (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2017-12)
      Since the early 2000s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have grown to become an important investment vehicle worldwide. In this paper, we study how their growth affects the sensitivity of international capital flows to the ...

    • La Educación de la Primera Infancia en Latinoamérica Las diversas modalidades de atención en Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia y Honduras 

      Narodowski, Mariano; Snaider, Carolina (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de GobiernoCentro para la Evaluación de Políticas basadas en Evidencia (CEPE), 2018)
      El objetivo de este estudio es comprender con mayor precisión cuál es la forma de organización que adopta la provisión de EPI en América Latina, describiendo los programas diversificados existentes. Interesa analizar qué ...

    • Grandparents and Grandchildren in The Simpsons Intergenerational Rupture and Prefigurative Culture 

      Narodowski, Mariano; Gottau, Verónica (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de GobiernoCentro para la Evaluación de Políticas basadas en Evidencia (CEPE), 2018)
      As a television series that hasbeenrunningfor over a quarter of a century, and that has family relationships at his heart, The Simpsonsprovides a unique case study to explore the connection between childhood and old age ...

    • Comparing Chile’s Free School Choice Model with Quasi-Monopoly Educational Systems in Latin America on Academic Outcomes and School Segregation 

      Narodowski, Mariano (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2018)
      The aim of this study is to show the achievements and challenges of Chile's system of free school choice compared to countries with similar socioeconomic structures and common educational histories, but with traditional ...

    • Do women ask for lower salaries? The supply side of the gender pay gap 

      González-Rozada, Martín; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2018)
      We explore a new rich dataset of online asking prices from a large online job application platform in Argentina. We find that women, on average, ask for a significant 6% significant less than men, a gender ask gap that ...

    • Radiografía del trabajo argentino 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Favata, Federico; Montané, Martín; Schteingart, Daniel (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de GobiernoCentro para la Evaluación de Políticas basadas en Evidencia (CEPE), 2018-02)
      Este trabajo presenta una primera aproximación al panorama presente y la evolución reciente del mercado de trabajo en la Argentina que nos permita poner en contexto el debate de las políticas de empleo de cara al futuro, ...

    • Avances y desafíos de la escuela secundaria con formación laboral en Argentina Documento 

      Levy Yeyati,Eduardo; Giarrizo, Victoria; Briasco, Irma; Verchelli, Vanesa; Cardinale Lagomarsino, Lucio; Stewart, Verónica (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaFundación UOCRA, 2019)
      La Argentina posee experiencias de vinculación entre educación y trabajo desde hace décadas. Estas tuvieron que traspasar los límites de la escuela y profundizar en nuevas vinculaciones que permitieron incorporar otros ...

    • The cost of holding foreign exchange reserves 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Gómez, Juan Francisco (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019)
      Recent studies that have emphasized the costs of accumulating reserves for self-insurance purposes have overlooked two potentially important side-effects. First, the impact of the resulting lower spreads on the service ...

    • How econometrics can help us understand the effects of climate change on crop yields: the case of soybeans 

      Ahumada, Hildegart; Cornejo, Magadalena (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019)
      Climate econometrics is a new field which is providing a fruitful approach to give a rigorous basis for many hypotheses related to climate change. With this aim, this chapter illustrates how econometrics can help understand ...

    • What works for Active Labor Market Policies? 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Montané, Martín; Sartorio, Lucas (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019-07)
      The past 5 years have witnessed a flurry of RCT evaluations that shed new light on the impact and cost effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) aiming to improve workers´ access to new jobs and better wages. ...

    • Is the Remedy Worse Than the Disease? The Impact of Teacher Remediation on Teacher and Student Performance in Chile 

      Lombardi, María (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019-09)
      I study the impact of remedial training for low-performing teachers in Chile. Taking advantage of the fact that assignment to remediation is mainly based on teacher evaluation scores, I use a fuzzy regression discontinuity ...

    • Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment 

      Ajzenman, Nicolás; Durante, Ruben (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2019-09)
      Can seemingly unimportant factors influence voting decisions by making certain issues salient? We study this in the context of Argentina’s 2015 presidential elections by examining how the infrastructure quality of the ...

    • Revolución digital y empleo en América Latina 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-03)
      América Latina está en una etapa incipiente de la revolución tecnológica, al tiempo que en la región prevalecen la informalidad y el trabajo precario. En este contexto, es esencial preguntarse por los desafíos de los cambios ...

    • Exposure toTransit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship 

      Ajzenman, Nicolás; Guriev, Sergei; Aksoy, Cevat Giray (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2020-04)
      Does exposure to mass migration affect the attitudes and economic behavior of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 and 2016 rounds of the Life ...

    • Specificity of human capital: Occupation and industry spaces based on job-to-job transitions 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Montané, Martín (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-04)
      Using job transition data from Argentina’s Household Survey, we document the extent to which human capital is specific to occupations and activities. Based on workers’ propensity to move between occupations/industries, ...

    • Interplay of chronotype and school timing predicts school performance 

      Goldín, Andrea P.; Sigman, Mariano; Braier, Gisela; Golombek, Diego A.; Leone, María J. (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-04)
      Most adolescents exhibit very late chronotypes and attend school early in the morning, a misalignment that can affect their health and psychological well-being. Here we examine how the interaction between the chronotype ...

    • Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru 

      Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Lombardi, María (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-05)
      We study the impact of a nationwide teacher pay-for-performance program in Peru. Public secondary schools compete in a tournament based on eighth graders’ performance in a standardized test. The principal and teachers of ...

    • More Than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior during a Pandemic 

      Ajzenman, Nicolás; Cavalcanti, Tiago; Da Mata, Daniel (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de GobiernoCentro para la Evaluación de Políticas basadas en Evidencia (CEPE), 2020-05)
      This paper investigates whether the anti-scientific rhetoric of modern populists can induce followers to engage in risky behavior. We gather electoral information, credit card expenses, and geo-localized mobile phone data ...

    • Infancias trans: otra disrupción en las escuelas de la modernidad 

      Stewart, Verónica; Narodowski, Mariano; Campetella, María Delfina (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2020-05)
      Este artículo de reflexión pretende exponer las consecuencias, en términos teóricos, de la presencia de alumnos trans en las escuelas. El supuesto es que la nueva situación es el resultado de nuevas posiciones de niños ...