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Do Democracies Breed Rent-Seeking Behavior?

Calderón, César; Chong, Alberto - 2005

democracies and rent-seeking behavior using time-series and panel data approaches. In this paper we focus on the case of Uruguay …

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Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America: What Drives What?

Calderón, César; Chong, Alberto - 2006

-seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, a country where both rent-seeking behavior and political shifts have varied widely in the … Uruguay, although the reduction in rent seeking does not appear to have had a bearing on the quality of democratic regime in …

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The Impact of ICT on Health Promotion: A Randomized Experiment with Diabetic Patients

Balsa, Ana; Gandelman, Nestor - 2010

patients in Montevideo, Uruguay. The intervention consisted of a specially designed website and an electronic social network …

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Padrões de especialização comercial no Mercosul

Grimaldi, Daniel; Carneiro, Flávio; Oliveira, Luís Felipe - 2012

This paper analyses the competitiveness evolution in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay within Mercosur trade …

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The impact of abortion legalisation on birth outcomes in Uruguay

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Ferre, Zuleika; Triunfo, … - 2016

This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks …

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Measuring the Quality of the Home Environment of Young Children in Uruguay: Socioeconomic Gradients in the Home Inventory

López Bóo, Florencia; Cubides Mateus, Mayaris; Sorio, Rita - 2019

Uruguay is one of very few countries in Latin America that has a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of …

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Educational diversity, organizational structure and innovation performance: Evidence from Uruguayan industry

Bello-Pintado, Alejandro; Bianchi, Carlos - In: Estudios de Economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 203-229

This paper analyses the relationship between horizontal educational diversity (HED) and firm innovation performance, both in the propensity to innovate and the intensity of innovation in firm performance. Moreover, we hypothesise that the organizational structure of the firm moderates this...

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Impacto de los instrumentos de promoción de la innovación orientada al sector productivo: El caso de ANII en Uruguay

Bukstein, Daniel; Hernández, Elisa; Usher, Ximena - In: Estudios de Economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 271-299

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the innovation promotion programs carried by the National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII). A combination of non-experimental methods was used to quantify the effects of public support to innovation in three dimensions of the firms'...

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Modelos basados en grafos: Una aplicación al estudio del gasto de cruceristas en Uruguay

Brida, Juan Gabriel; Santiñaque, Florencia; … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 24 (2017), pp. 270-291

arriving at the ports of Montevideo and Punta del Este in Uruguay. The graphical representation allows to synthesize and … April 2015 in Uruguay are considered. The existence of dependencies between spending variables and other variables that may …

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The effect of access to information and communication technology on household labor income: Evidence from one laptop per child in Uruguay

Marandino, Joaquin; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - In: Economies 5 (2017) 3, pp. 1-10

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

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