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42 p, 801.8 KB Do women fare worse when men are around?: quasi-experimental evidence / Gomez-Ruiz, Marcela (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Cervini-Plá, María (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Ramos Morilla, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
We investigate the impact of a change in the gender composition of the pool of candidates on the academic performance of women in an entrance exam. We use data from a natural experiment that altered the gender composition of the candidates for a nation-wide admission exam to a coding educational program. [...]
Bellaterra 2024 (Working papers GEAR; 2024-01)  
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65 p, 2.0 MB Long term effects of pre-natal exposure to maternal stress: Evidence from the financial crisis in Ecuador / Larrea, Antonio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Ramos, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
We measure the effect of the 1999 Ecuadorian financial crisis on the z-score of height-for-age in 2012. A tax on all financial transactions was deployed on 1 Jan 1999 creating a liquidity, currency, and inflationary crisis. [...]
Bellaterra 2023 (Working papers GEAR; 2023-06)  
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49 p, 1.1 MB Relative deprivation and malnutrition in Ecuador / Larrea, Antonio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Ramos, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
We hypothesize that relative deprivation has a deleterious effect on children'smalnutrition, one of the most prevalent health problems in the word, and that the main pathway of this relationship is the larger psychosocial stress of parents with higher relative deprivation. [...]
Bellaterra 2023 (Working papers GEAR ; 2023-05)  
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31 p, 1.6 MB Real estate prices and land use regulations : Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá / Buitrago-Mora, Diego ; García López, Miquel-Àngel ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
Between 2015 and 2017, the Law of Heights (Policy-regulated areas of urban renewal in specific locations of Bogotá (Colombia). Using a novel dataset based on detailed information at the block level between 2008 and 2017, we study whether this policy affected real estate prices. [...]
2023 (Working papers GEAR ; 2023-04)  
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25 p, 3.4 MB Housing prices, buses and trams in Medellín (Colombia) / García López, Miquel-Àngel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Gómez Hernández, Luz Yadira (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
This paper aims to establish the impact of two medium-capacity transportation systems (MCTS) on housing prices in Medellín (Colombia): Metroplús, a bus rapid transit (BRT) system, and Tranvía, a tramway system. [...]
2023 (Working papers GEAR ; 2023-03)  
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48 p, 765.4 KB After you : cognition and health-distribution preferences / Brun, Martín ; D'Ambrosio, Conchita ; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada ; Ramos, Xavier
We analyse individuals' preferences vaccine-distribution schemes in the World, the EU, and their country of residence that emphasise circumstances rather than outcomes or effort. We link preferences to previously-measured cognition, and find that high-cognition individuals are 35% more likely to always support such schemes. [...]
2023 (Working papers GEAR ; 2023-02)  
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58 p, 4.2 MB Exposure to High-Speed Internet and Early Childhood Development / Colombo, Karina (European University Institute) ; Failache, Elisa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
We exploit the geographic differences in the introduction of fiber-optic-to-the-home (FTTH) to study the effects of high-speed internet exposure on early childhood development.
We identify intention-to-treat effects on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes using screening tests for developmental delays. Our results show that an increase in 10 percentage points in the probability of fiber optic decreases development scores between 8% and 18% of a standard deviation in the areas of communication, problem solving and social skills. [...]
2023 (Working papers GEAR ; 2023-01)  
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37 p, 773.1 KB Central Bank Digital Currencies and Financial Stability in a Modern Monetary System / Tercero Lucas, David ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
The aim of this study is to disentangle the effects of introducing an interest-bearing central bank digital currency (CBDC) for financial stability using a Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model in which (i) both CBDC and private bank deposits can be used in exchange and (ii) liquidity is created endogenously. [...]
Bellaterra 2022 (Working papers GEAR ; 2022-01)  
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53 p, 14.8 MB On the dynamics of patient migration flows : is efficiency performance explaining inflows for neighboring hospitals? An application to the Ecuadorian healthcare system / Piedra-Peña, Juan ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
This study aims to analyze whether higher efficiency performance of Ecuadorian hospitals attracts larger inflows of interregional patients to a given hospital and the existence of spatial dependence in terms of larger inflows of patients for neighboring hospitals in the region. [...]
Bellaterra Departament Economia Aplicada 2021 (Working papers GEAR ; 2021-01)  
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38 p, 1.1 MB Card payment market and retail prices : an empirical analysis of the effects of the interchange fee on price levels in Spain / Shabgard, Bita
The present paper examines how changes in the interchange fee affect retail prices. The interchange fee is a payment from the merchant's bank (called the acquirer) to the cardholder's bank (called the issuer) per card transaction. [...]
Bellaterra Departament Economia Aplicada 2020 (Working papers GEAR ; 2020-07)  
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