In: The european journal of development research, 2021, p. 27
Cet article étudie l’impact du microcrédit au Brésil. Nous utilisons la méthode d’appariemment sur score de propension sur des données primaires originales issues de résultats commerciaux et personnels pour comparer les clients de longue date de la BNDES - la plus grande banque de développement appartenant au gouvernement du Brésil - à un échantillon apparié de clients plus...
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In: Computers in human behavior, 2021, vol. 119, no. June, p. 14 p
Smartphones have become a ubiquitous part of adolescents' life, and studies have repeatedly revealed a positive association between smartphone use (SU) and problematic smartphone use (PSU). However, longitudinal research investigating the reciprocal relationship among SU and PSU during adolescence are scarce, and studies that take into consideration personality traits as predisposing factors...
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In: Acta Diabetologica, 2015, vol. 52, no. 3, p. 631-632
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The adoption of labor-replacing technologies has already displaced thousands of workers in the US. In this paper, I analyze how the adverse effects of the implementation of robots in firms’ production processes are spreading among the population and how they are shaping the composition of labor markets. Exploiting exogenous variation in robot exposure across local labor markets and over time,...
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In: The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2020, vol. 25, no. 4, p. 692-711
Gender bias in the media coverage of political elections has long been theorized as a major obstacle to women’s success in elections and their institutional representation. However, this view of persistent media bias against women politicians is increasingly subject to pressure by inconsistent evidence of size and patterns of gender bias. This paper argues that some of these inconsistencies...
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This paper studies gender-based price discrimination in the annuity market. The dataset consists of transaction-level data on the universe of individuals accessing the Chilean annuity market in the 2004-2017 period. It exploits the fact that, in Chile, individuals can access the annuity market through three different channels: an independent financial advisor, a sales agent at a company, or...
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(Working Papers SES ; 503 (revised))
In India, as in many developing countries, female sterilization is the main contraceptive method: 37% of women older than 25 are sterilized. However, no economic study assesses the eect of sterilization, providing guidance on ecient reproductive health policies. We analyze the consequences of sterilization for maternal health, considering the endogeneity of the decision. We exploit that...
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(Working Papers SES ; 506)
The apprenticeship market is the earliest possible entry into the workforce in developed economies. Since early labor market shocks are likely magnified throughout professional life, avoiding mismatches between talent and occupations e.g. due to gender- or status-based discrimination appears crucial. This experimental study investigates the effects of applicant gender and its interaction with...
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In: Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, vol. 10, no. 1604, p. 1-6
Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language. Although such variations across languages offer interesting grounds for legitimate cross- linguistic comparisons, pertinent characteristics of grammatical systems – especially in terms of their gender asymmetries –...
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In: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2014, vol. 264, no. 7, p. 557-565
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