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Assessing the impact of commuting on family violence
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2022-06)
I study the impact of commuting time on family violence. To avoid potential endogeneity concerns, I exploit the
exogenous variation in the commuting time provided by car accidents. Using US county-level data, I find that
when ...
An assessment of offering innovation in distribution channels to access low-income segments: A study in Argentina in the category of home cleaning and pesticides
(Universidad de San Andrés. Escuela de Negocios, 2022-08)
Since the birth of the modern economy, it has been observed that its mechanism leads to an aggravation in the disparity of living standards, where the poor develop slowly, and the imbalance grows. However, on these new ...
Another brick in the wall : subsidizing school enrollment through a breakfast program
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2018-11)
Breakfast Programs can be implemented to subsidize school enrollment when there are barriers to access education. In this paper, I exploit a quasi experimental setting in Bolivian municipalities to assess the impact of a ...
The influence of political leaders on policy preferences
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2019-10)
Public opinion is sensitive to the way policy proposals are framed and elite policy endorsement can be thought as a powerful form of framing. Using original data from a survey experiment in a polarized political setting, ...
Refugee influx and economic activity : evidence from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2020-08)
Using nighttime lights data and the location of historically important markets for host populations in Southern Bangladesh, we assess the impact of the sudden refugee influx in August 2017 in the economic activity for the ...
Evaluación de la Tarifa Social Eléctrica Federal en Tucumán : su desempeño en relación con mecanismos alternativos de focalización
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2019-06)
Este trabajo evalúa cuantitativamente la incidencia distributiva de la Tarifa Social Eléctrica Federal (TSF) aplicada a usuarios residenciales en Tucumán, comparándolo con esquemas universales, umbrales de consumo, ...
Cultural efficiencies : exploring the main differences in cultural dimensions that drive performance
(Universidad de San Andrés. Escuela de Administración y Negocios., 2016)
The main objective of this work is to explore which behaviors, norms and acts in
culture of organizations are related with characteristics of national culture of
countries and how these are linked with macroeconomic ...
Negative nominal interest rate as an optimal monetary policy in a cash-in-advance economy
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2019-07)
A raíz de la crisis financiera del año 2008, varios bancos centrales fijaron sus tasas de política monetaria por debajo de cero. Para junio de 2016, aproximadamente un tercio de los bonos de gobierno con grado de inversión ...
Conditional exchange rate pass-through : a DSGE model approach
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2019-03)
El análisis del traspaso de tipo de cambio a precios como un fenómeno no condicional puede llevar a resultados erróneos, dada la potencial existencia de un problema de endogeneidad. En este trabajo se propone estimar un ...
How big are the differences in the informal sector wage gap in Argentina? : evidence using quantile regression on panel data
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2019-08)
I estimate a quantile regression (QR) to assess informal wage penalties at different points along the conditional wage distribution in Argentina and within the country. I exploit a panel data set from a quarterly household ...