Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

By using a bunching design on rich administrative tax records from Uruguay's tax agency we explore how individual taxpayers respond to personal income taxation in a context with high sheltering opportunities. We estimate a moderated elasticity of taxable income in the first kink point (0.16)...

Income comparisons are important for individual well-being. We examine the shape of the relationship between relative income and life satisfaction, and test empirically if the features of the value function of prospect theory carry on to experienced utility. We draw on a unique dataset for a...

En este artículo se examina la elasticidad no compensada de la oferta de trabajo a los ingresos laborales reales (propios y de la pareja) y a los ingresos del hogar, entre las mujeres casadas en el Uruguay (1991-2006), sobre la base de datos de corte transversal. Al igual que se verifica en...