2019

 

Recent Submissions

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...