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Nature's choice? a study of the displacement of incumbents in elections
(2013-06-05)
How do economic shocks affect the behaviour of elections in democracies? Using U.S. Congress electoral data, I test whether sudden shocks affect unequally incumbent par- ties and opponents. This is identified through, among ...
Short and long-term effects of a child-labor ban
(2016)
This is the first study that investigates the short and long-term causal effects of a child-labor ban. We explore the law that increased minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998 and uncover its impact on time ...
The impact of mayor leadership on education: evidence from Brazil
(2015-06-29)
What are the impacts of female mayors on education? It is well known that in Brazil, like in many other countries around the globe, women are underrepresented in political posts. Understanding the impacts of this discrepancy ...
Investment capacity and the electoral marketplace: evidence from Brazil
(2019)
The importance of money in elections is a hallmark of contemporary democracies. In this paper, we study how investment capacity, defined as the resources remaining after the municipality perform the mandatory expenditures, ...
The Impact of Grade Retention on Juvenile Crime
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
Using detailed administrative and individual data on schooling and crime records
from Chile, we estimate the effect of grade retention between 4th and 8th grade
on juvenile crime. We base our research on the rule which ...
Electoral rules and political competition : regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2020-11)
This paper uses exogenous variation in voting schemes to estimate the causal effect of
different electoral rules on political competition, exploiting a regression discontinuity design
in the assignment of single-ballot ...
The unintended consequences of childcare regulation: evidence from a regression discontinuity design.
In several countries governments fund childcare provision but in many others it is privately funded as labor regulation mandates that firms have to provide childcare services. For this later case, there is no empirical ...
Effect of the Program BETA - PUCV on the prosocial conduct and the social responsibility of his participants: An analysis with discontinuity regression modelingEfecto del Programa BETA - PUCV sobre la conducta prosocial y la responsabilidad social de sus alumnos: Un análisis con regresión por discontinuidadEfeito do Programa BETA - PUCV sobre a conduta prosocial e a responsabilidade social de seus alunos: Uma análise com regreção por descontinuidade
(Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades., 2018)
Legislature size and welfare: evidence from Brazil
(2019)
What is the effect of legislature size on public service provision? While the literature relates legislature size to representation and government expenditure, its implications for welfare remain understudied. In this ...