What is the impact of social class on college integration? Higher education institutions are becoming more diverse, yet the integration of underprivileged students remains a…

31 Mar 2023

External restriction, structural change and varieties of the middle income trap

Carlos Bianchi (Instituto de Economía - UdelaR) (en coautoría con Fernando Isabella, Anaclara Martinis y Santiago Picasso).

9 Mar 2023

Albert O. Hirschman and the “visiting-economist syndrome”

Since his trilogy on economic development, The Strategy of Economic Development (1958), Journeys Towards Progress – Studies of Economic Policy-Making in Latin America (1963), and…

23 Feb 2023

Regulation by Public Options: Evidence from Pension Funds

In this paper, we analyze the equilibrium welfare effects of using public options to regulate market power in the market for individual capitalization pension systems.…

14 Feb 2023

The impact of educational expenditure on individual child poverty and intra-household inequality in Argentina

Traditional fiscal incidence analysis relies on the unitary household framework as the underlying model of household behavior to measure poverty and inequality at the household…

19 Dec 2022

Desentrañando el efecto del incumbente departamental: partidos y candidatos en Uruguay

Rodrigo Aguirre (UDELAR)