This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. We focus on radon, an indoor air …

, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities … are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … sample period, 1995-2004: (i) in Uruguay wage indexation declines, while workers' resistance to nominal wage cuts becomes …

There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves … births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a generous cash transfer program led to a sizeable 15% reduction in the …

distribution in Uruguay for 2009-2016 and assess mobility patterns. Comparing household surveys micro-data and a unique array of …

large-scale field experiment in collaboration with Uruguay's tax authority to address this question. We sent letters to 20 …

By using a bunching design on rich administrative tax records from Uruguay's tax agency we explore how individual …

program and the only one implemented at a national scale: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. Unlike previous work in the field, we have … located in Montevideo and the rest of Uruguay. Our results suggest that the program had no effects on math and reading scores …

This paper examines the effect of the One Laptop Per Child program in Uruguay [Plan Ceibal] on household labor income … Statistics in Uruguay, a difference-in-difference model is estimated to capture the effect of the plan of giving laptops on labor …