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Schooling and Intergenerational Mobility : Consequences of Expanding Higher Education Institutions

Katzkowicz, Noemí; Lavy, Victor; Querejeta, Martina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

building many university campuses across Uruguay. Leveraging temporal and geographic variation in program implementation, we …

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Calling All Parents : Leveraging Behavioral Insights to Boost Early Childhood Outcomes in the Developing World

Bloomfield, Juanita; Balsa, Ana Inés; Cid, Alejandro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

, a chatbot, and an AI tool. Targeted at highly vulnerable families with children aged 0 to 3 in Uruguay, the intervention … government agency Uruguay Crece Contigo over an eight-month period. We find that the program increases weekly frequency of …

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Smokers’ Rational Lexicographic Preferences for Cigarette Package Warnings : A Discrete Choice Experiment with Eye Tracking

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2018

We asked 97 cigarette smokers to make a series of 12 binary choices between experimental cigarette packages with varying warnings and background colors. Each smoker had to decide which of the two packages contained cigarettes less risky for his health. We tested whether the smokers, confronted...

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Sovereign Default, Debt Restructuring, and Recovery Rates : Was the Argentinean “Haircut” Excessive?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2015

Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Greece. The results suggest that the haircut imposed by Argentina in its 2005 restructuring (75 …

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Tobacco Control Campaign in Uruguay : Impact on Smoking Cessation during Pregnancy

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2014

Background. In 2005, Uruguay instituted a nationwide tobacco control campaign that has resulted in a substantial …Conclusion. Uruguay's nationwide tobacco control campaign led to a substantial increase in the likelihood that a …Data. We analyzed a nationwide registry of all pregnancies in Uruguay during 2007-2012, supplemented by data on …

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Shelter from the Storm : Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

Galiani, Sebastian - 2013

Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides …

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Distance and Political Boundaries : Estimating Border Effects under Inequality Constraints

Borraz, Fernando - 2012

selection bias, and propose a new methodology based on quantile regressions. Using a novel data set from Uruguay, we apply our …

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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Amarante, Verónica - 2011

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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Government Transfers and Political Support

Manacorda, Marco - 2009

We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a pre-treatment eligibility score, we find that beneficiary households are 11 to 14...

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Modeling Exchange-Rate Passthrough After Large Devaluations

Burstein, Ariel - 2005

Large devaluations are generally associated with large declines in real exchange rates. We develop a model which embodies two complementary forces that account for the large declines in the real exchange rate that occur in the aftermath of large devaluations. The first force is sticky...

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