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Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Forbearance, and Deforestation in Colombia
While existing work has demonstrated that campaign donations can buy access to benefits such as favorable legislation and preferential contracting, we highlight another use of campaign contributions: buying forbearance. ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-08-17
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Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil
We study how the disclosure of corrupt practices affects firms. We construct novel firm-level measures of involvement in corrupt practices using randomized audits of public procurement in Brazil. On average, firms exposed ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-08-05
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Sustainability as a Policy Tool
In this policy note we propose a new country-based sustainability index comprised of three main drivers: climate change, energy use, and resource depletion. We argue that increases in clean energy intensity (clean energy ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-07-15.
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Minimum wage effects on informality across demographic groups in Colombia
We present evidence of the minimum wage effects on labour informality rates in Colombia. Our identification strategy consists of dividing the working population into sixteen groups depending on their age, gender and ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-05-26.
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Does Higher Education Reduce Mortality? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We provide new evidence on the causal effect of education on health. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in access to college experienced by individuals reaching college age shortly after the 1973 military coup ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-05-24.
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