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The Real Costs of Washing Away Corruption : Evidence from Brazil's Lava Jato Investigation

Ferraz, Claudio; Moura, Luiz C.; Norden, Lars; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We investigate the economic impacts of one of the world's largest anti-corruption crackdowns, Brazil's Operação Lava Jato (Car Wash). Using a difference-in-differences analysis of unique, matched firm-bank data, we find sizable declines in employment and wage bills for investigated firms,...

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Unsupervised Machine Learning for Explainable Health Care Fraud Detection

Shekhar, Shubhranshu; Leder-Luis, Jetson; Akoglu, Leman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The US spends more than 4 trillion dollars per year on health care, largely conducted by private providers and reimbursed by insurers. A major concern in this system is overbilling, waste and fraud by providers, who face incentives to misreport on their claims in order to receive higher...

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The Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Conviction-less Arrests

Ba, Bocar A.; Rim, Nayoung; Rivera, Roman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Given the use of an individual's arrest history for many economic and social outcomes, reducing conviction-less arrests (arrests that result in no charges or where the defendant is found not guilty) is an important policy goal. This paper examines which officers are making conviction-less...

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Police Discretion and Public Safety

Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Mello, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over fines by deviating from statutory fine rules. Relying on variation across officers in this discretionary behavior, we find that harsher sanctions reduce future traffic offending and...

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Market Response to Racial Uprisings

Ba, Bocar A.; Rivera, Roman; Whitefield, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Do investors anticipate that demands for racial equity will impact companies? We explore this question in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement--the largest racially motivated protest movement in U.S. history--and its effect on the U.S. policing industry using a novel dataset on...

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Do Transfer Pricing Reforms Lead to a Boom in Tax Consultants?

Pomeranz, Dina; Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

analyze the effect for four countries: Chile, Colombia, Spain, and Uruguay. Event-study difference-in-differences analysis …

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Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Firm Wage Premia

Bergolo, Marcelo L.; Ceni, Rodrigo; Fondo, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper leverages a large minimum wage reform in Uruguay to study the effects of minimum wages on the distribution …

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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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