Seminar Series
2022 Schedule
03.15 José Villegas (University of Rochester) - Employment Fluctuations, Real Estate Prices and Property Taxes.
03.17 Mariana Zerpa (KU Leuven) - Health Insurance Coverage after Job Loss: Are Families Landing In or Falling Through the Safety Net?
2021 Schedule
04.21 Santiago Tobón (EAFIT) - Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance.
05.05 Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (Syracuse University) - The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans: A Bounds Analysis.
05.26 Emircan Yurdagul (Universidad Carlos III) - Labor Supply and Establishment Size.
06.02 Pablo Ottonello (University of Michigan) - The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments.
06.16 Francesco Agostinelli (University of Pennsylvania) - Welfare, Workfare and Labor Supply: A Unified Evaluation.
07.07 Valentina González (University of Pittsburgh) - Political-Economic Polarization: From Economic Polarization to Partisan Polarization.
08.18 Nestor Gandelman (Universidad ORT) - Ventajas comparativas reveladas en disciplinas científicas y tecnológicas en Uruguay.
09.01 Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes) - Political Incentives and Corruption Evidence from Ghost Students.
10.13 Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M) - Misdemeanor Prosecution.
10.27 Carolina Arteaga (University of Toronto) - The Opiod Epidemic: Causes and Consequences.
2020 Schedule
02.12 Magdalena Cerdá (New York University) - The Impact of Cannabis Legalization in Uruguay on Adolescent Cannabis Use.
05.06 Flavia Roldán (Universidad ORT) - Innovation Policy and Competition Policy: Friends or Enemies?
06.10 Rodrigo Ceni (Universidad de la República) - Birth Collapse and Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives Policies.
07.01 Hugo Jales (Syracuse University) - Labor market policies in a Roy-Rosen bargaining economy.
08.05 Amy Nivette (Utrecht University) - Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study.
08.26 Luciana Etcheverry (University of Oregon) - Work half-time, receive full-time pay: Effect of novel family policy on female labor market outcomes.
09.09 Leandro Zipitría (Universidad de la República) - Gentrifying Neighborhoods, Retail Prices and Varieties.
11.11 Tiziano Arduini (Tor Vergata University) - Dynamic Social Interactions and Health Risk Behavior.
11.18 Libor Dusek (Charles University) - Simplified Criminal Procedures.
12.19 Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University) - The Quantitative Effects of Trade Policy on Industrial and Labor Location.
2019 Schedule
03.18 Guillermo Alves (CAF) - On the Determinants of Slum Formation: The Role of Local Politics and Policies.
04.09 José Manuel Paz y Miño (Indiana University) - Nationalistic Bias in Collusion Prosecution: The Case for International Antitrust Agreements.
04.11 Leandro Zipitría (Universidad de la República) - The Role of Variety in Explaining Law of One Price Deviations.
04.24 Matías Brum (Universidad de la República) - Do Dictatorships Affect People’s Long Term Beliefs and Preferences? An Empirical Assessment of the Latin American Case.
06.05 Gabriel Katz (University of Exeter) - Money in Judicial Politics: Individual Contributions and Collective Decisions.
06.12 Ana Balsa (Universidad de Montevideo) - Using Behavioral Insights in Early Childhood Interventions.
08.14 Fernando López (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) - Investment performance, regulation and incentives: The case of Chile's multi-fund pension system.
08.20 Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) - Craigslist reduced violence against women.
09.04 Nestor Gandelman (Universidad ORT) - Cash and Crime.
09.30 Carlos Uribe-Terán (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) - Age-dependent Payroll Tax in Emerging Markets: A Quantitative Assessment for Ecuador.
2018 Schedule
04.11 Rodrigo Lluberas (Central Bank of Uruguay) - New Information and Inflation Expectations Among Firms.
04.25 Giorgio Chiovelli (London Business School) - Land Mines and Spatial Development.
05.02 Rodrigo Ceni (Universidad de la República) - Subjective Well-Being Among Deprived Young People.
05.25 Juan Carlos Hatchondo (Indiana University) - Fiscal Rules and the Sovereign Default Premium.
07.04 Pedro CL Souza (University of Warwick) - Recovering Social Networks from Panel Data.
08.03 Germán Cubas (University of Houston) - Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap.
08.08 Julio Garín (Claremont McKenna College) - Repatriation Taxes.
08.15 Sebastián Fleitas (KU Leuven) - Dynamic Competition when Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Medicare Part D.
08.21 Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University) - Trade and Labor Market Dynamics: General Equilibrium Analysis of the China Trade Shock.
08.29 Mariana Zerpa (KU Leuven) - Preschool Education and Child Development and Health: Evidence from State Pre-K Programs.
09.05 Emiliano Tealde (CINVE) - The Unequal Impact of Natural Light on Crime.
09.19 Marco Giani (King's College London) - Out-Group Discrimination under Terror Threat.
10.10 Álvaro Forteza (Universidad de la República) - Electoral Accountability and Checks and Balances in the Presence of Concerns for Political Inaction.
10.31 Diego Aboal (CINVE) - Contract Enforcement and Investment: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.
11.14 Tommy Murphy (Universidad de San Andrés) - Following the Poppy Trail: Causes and Consequences of Mexican Drug Cartels.
11.16 Marcela Perticará (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) - Home Alone vs Kids Club: Adult Supervision Matters for Grades.
11.21 Marcelo Bérgolo (Universidad de la República) - Tax Bunching at the Kink in the Presence of Low Capacity of Enforcement: Evidence From Uruguay.
11.23 Eugenio Giolito (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) - Minimum Age Requirements and the role of the School Choice Set.
11.30 John Londregan (Princeton University) - The Effects of Political Institutions on the Extensive and Intensive Margins of Trade.
12.19 Luciana Etcheverry (University of Oregon) - Effect of Paid Paternity Leave on Paternal Involvement and Labor Market Outcomes.