no code implementations • 4 May 2023 • Cecilia Machado, Germán Reyes, Evan Riehl
We examine the effects of an affirmative action policy at an elite Brazilian university that reserved 45 percent of admission slots for Black and low-income students.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2023 • Germán Reyes
This wage return to endurance is sizable, equivalent to a third of the wage return to ability.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2022 • Oscar Calvo-González, Axel Eizmendi, Germán Reyes
We use natural-language-processing algorithms on a novel dataset of over 900 presidential speeches from ten Latin American countries spanning two centuries to study the dynamics and determinants of presidential policy priorities.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2022 • Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, Joy Wu
We examine how redistribution decisions respond to the source of luck when there is uncertainty about its role in determining opportunities and outcomes.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2022 • Germán Reyes
This paper shows that the bunching of wages at round numbers is partly driven by firm coarse wage-setting.
no code implementations • 9 Feb 2022 • Leonardo Gasparini, Germán Reyes
A common assumption in the literature is that the level of income inequality shapes individuals' beliefs about whether the income distribution is fair (``fairness views,'' for short).