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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...