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, 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 …
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births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a generous cash transfer program led to a sizeable 15% reduction in the …
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distribution in Uruguay for 2009-2016 and assess mobility patterns. Comparing household surveys micro-data and a unique array of …
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large-scale field experiment in collaboration with Uruguay's tax authority to address this question. We sent letters to 20 …
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By using a bunching design on rich administrative tax records from Uruguay's tax agency we explore how individual …
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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 …
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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 …
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that randomizes job offers among students in Uruguay. Using social security data matched to over 120,000 applicants, we …
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attendance in Uruguay. Specifically, behaviorally-informed messages were delivered through the government's official mobile app …
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This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...
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