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Abstract: We estimate the labor market power of over 13,000 manufacturing establishments across 82 low and middle-income countries around the world. Within local labor markets, larger and more productive firms have higher wage markdowns and pay lower wages. Labor market power across countries...
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Brenda Samaniego de la Parra: Professor Brenda Samaniego de la Parra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Santa Cruz and a member of the steering committee of the Center for Analytical Finance at U.C. Santa Cruz. Her research analyzes how different work arrangements...
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Robert Clark: is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Queen’s University. A leading expert on the industrial organization of financial markets, Professor Clark’s work has studied competition in the banking sector and its implications for financial stability. His research is...
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Resumen: The resurgence of subsidies and industrial policies has raised concerns about their potential inefficiency and alignment with multilateral principles. Critics warn that such policies may divert resources to less efficient firms and provoke retaliatory measures from other countries, leading...
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Resumen: I study the effects of improvements in transportation infrastructure on informality. To deal with endogeneity issues, I implement two complementary identification strategies. First, taking advantage of the staggered rollout of highways, I apply a generalized difference-in-difference...
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Resumen: This paper studies the effects of partial automation (i.e., the creation of technology capable of automating some but not all components of a job). We consider a model where jobs entail a bundle of tasks, workers may trade the output of the requisite tasks at a cost, and workers in a...
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Abstract: This paper examines the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on labor markets in both Advanced economies (AEs) and Emerging Markets (EMs). We propose an extension to a standard measure of AI exposure, accounting for AI’s potential as either a complement or a substitute for labor, where...
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Abstract: Do land market frictions cause misallocation in agriculture? In a field experiment in Western Kenya, we randomly subsidize owners to rent out land. Transferring cultivation rights to renters increases output and value added on the plots, consistent with imperfect land markets and...
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Mounu Prem: works as an Adjunct Professor at the Economics Department in Universidad del Rosario and is currently visiting the Institute for Advance Studies in Toulouse. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and a M.A. and B.A. in Economics from PUC Chile. His research interests...
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Resumen: The use of markets to reallocate water in arid regions has elicited political criticism for reducing agricultural output and causing negative environmental effects. We develop a general equilibrium model to formalize arguments about how liberalizing water trade creates pecuniary and...
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Jonathan Moreno Medina: Jonathan is a urban and public economist working the role of the media and informal institutions on different markets. He has an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, M.A. from Université Catholique de Louvain, and Ph.D. from Duke University.
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Resumen: Recent macroeconomic shocks have driven a sharp rise in firm-level outcome dispersion. We argue that this heterogeneity arises from differences in firms’ exposure to macro shocks, shaped by their business characteristics. To measure this, we construct shock-specific exposures at the firm...
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Nicolás de Roux: es investigador y profesor de planta de la Universidad de los Andes en Bogotá. Nicolás trabaja con métodos de microeconomía aplicada para responder preguntas sobre inclusión financiera, comportamiento de las firmas, medio ambiente y educación en países en desarrollo. Nicolás...
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Resumen: This paper examines the concept of “climate matching” in migration—the idea that migrants seek out destinations with familiar climates. Focusing on the US, we document that temperature distance between origin and destination predicts the distribution of migrants across counties. This...
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Seminario de Microeconomía Aplicada - Misallocated Talent? Teen Pregnancy, Education and Job SortingJorge Agüero: is Associate Professor of Economics and El Instituto, University of Connecticut. He is also co-Founder of the Health Economics Lab (U of Connecticut) and Editor of Review of Economics of the Household (June 2021-). He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied...
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Darwin Cortés: es economista de la Universidad del Rosario, magister en economía de la Universidad Nacional del Colombia, Master y doctor en economía de la Universidad de Toulouse, Francia. Es profesor asociado de la facultad de economía de la Universidad del Rosario. Tiene intereses de...
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Abstract: We study a regulation in Chile that mandates front-of-package warning labels on products whose sugar or caloric concentration exceeds certain thresholds. We find that after the introduction of the regulation, consumers reduced their overall sugar and caloric intake by 9% and 6%,...
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Resumen: Differences in school choice by race contribute to school segregation and unequal access to effective schools. Conditional on test score and district of residence, Black and Hispanic families consistently choose schools with fewer white and Asian students, lower average achievement, and...
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Juan Tomás Sáyago: Profesor asistente de la Universidad Icesi. Egresado de Economía de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. PhD en Economia de la Universidad de West Virginia y miembro del consejo de la Southern Regional Science Association. Interesado en temas de economía Regional y Urbana....
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Abstract: Two broad contrasting demographic trends present challenges for economies globally: countries with aging populations, often advanced economies and increasingly emerging markets, anticipate a significant shrinking of the labor force, with implications for growth, economic stability, and...
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Sebastian Fleitas: is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Leuven. He is also a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His research interests are in industrial organization, health economics, public economics and economic history.
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Resumen: Jobs constitute the primary mechanism for poverty reduction globally (Inchauste et al. 2014). In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the 2009–14 period— the last episode of rapid poverty reduction in the region—saw employment creation and earnings growth accounting for approximately two...
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Abstract: We propose a contract-theoretic approach to investigate how farmer operators who rent farmland adjust their commitment to land stewardship based on the type of landlord and the expected length of the rental relationship. Utilizing relational contract theory and experimental economics...
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Abstract We examine the impact of religious messaging on fertility decisions using a comprehensive database of Pope John Paul II’s visits to Latin America. The effect of Papal visits varies by country context and across populations within countries. The probability of conception increases after the...
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Arlen Guarín: Candidato a Doctor en Economía de la Universidad de California, Berkeley. Sus principales campos de especialidad son la Economía del Desarrollo y Economía Pública aunque también está interesado y trabaja en temas de Economía Laboral y Econometría Aplicada.
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