Browsing by Author "Prem, Mounu"
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Chile’s Missing Students: Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; Prem, MounuLas políticas hostiles hacia la educación superior son una característica destacada de los regímenes autoritarios. Estudiamos la captura de la educación superior por la dictadura militar de Augusto Pinochet en Chile después ...Documento de trabajo. 2020
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Corruption and Firms
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Prem, MounuWe estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anti-corruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic ...Documento de trabajo. 2019
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Corruption in the Times of Pandemia
Gallego, Jorge A.; Prem, Mounu; Vargas, Juan F.La crisis de salud pública causada por la pandemia de COVID-19, junto con la subsiguiente emergencia económica y la agitación social, ha empujado a los gobiernos a aumentar el gasto de manera sustancial y rápida. Debido a ...Documento de trabajo. 2020
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Does higher education reduce mortality? Evidence from a natural experiment in Chile
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; Prem, MounuAprovechando la fuerte caída en la matrícula universitaria que experimentaron las cohortes que alcanzaron la edad universitaria después del golpe militar de 1973 en Chile, se estudio el efecto causal de la educación superior ...Documento de trabajo. 2020
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End-of-Conflict Deforestation : Evidence From Colombia’s Peace Agreement
Prem, Mounu; Saavedra, Santiago; Vargas, Juan F.Armed conflict can endanger natural resources through several channels such as direct predation from fighting groups, but it may also help preserve ecosystems by dissuading extractive economic activities through the fear ...Documento de trabajo. 2018
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How Do Internal Capital Markets Work? Evidence from the Great Recession
Buchuk, David; Larrain, Borja; Prem, Mounu; Urzúa Infante, FranciscoWe study the inner workings of internal capital markets during the 2008–09 recession using a unique dataset of loans between business group firms in an emerging market. Intragroup loans increase quickly during the recession. ...Artículo. 2019
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Killing social leaders for territorial control : The unintended consequences of peace
Prem, Mounu; Rivera, Andrés F.; Romero, Dario A.; Vargas, Juan F.We study the unintended consequences of the recent peace process in Colombia, that ended over five decades of internal armed conflict with the FARC insurgency. Using a triple differences empirical strategy, we show that ...Documento de trabajo. 2018
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Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors
González, Felipe; Muñoz, Pablo; Prem, MounuDictatorships can affect the functioning of new democracies but the mechanisms are poorly understood. We study the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile using new data and provide two findings. First, mayors appointed by Pinochet ...Documento de trabajo. 2019
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Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Prem, Mounu; Teso, EdoardoIn all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public em- ployment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence. Relying ...Documento de trabajo. 2018
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Police Repression and Protest Behavior: Evidence from Student Protests in Chile
González, Felipe; Prem, MounuLa represión policial es una característica común de las protestas callejeras en todo el mundo, pero la evidencia sobre su impacto en el comportamiento disidente es limitada. Aportamos un análisis empírico de personas ...Documento de trabajo. 2020
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Productivity and Sectoral Allocation : The Labor Market of School Principals
Muñoz, Pablo; Prem, MounuAn important question is whether differences in management can explain variation in productivity and whether different compensation schemes and selection policies can impact the allocation of managerial effectiveness. To ...Documento de trabajo. 2019
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Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil
Prem, Mounu; Colonnelli, Emanuele; Lagaras, Spyridon; Ponticelli, Jacopo; TSOUTSOURA, MARGARITAEstudiamos cómo la divulgación de prácticas corruptas afecta a las empresas y sus empleados. Construimos medidas novedosas a nivel de empresa de participación en prácticas corruptas utilizando auditorías aleatorias y ...Documento de trabajo. 2020
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The Evolution of Ownership Structures: Privatization, Business Groups, and Pyramids
Aldunate, Felipe; González, Felipe; Prem, Mounu; Urzúa I., FranciscoWhat is the contribution of privatization to the formation of business groups and pyramids? We use new data to study how Pinochet’s privatizations in Chile (1973-1990) affected the evolution of ownership structures. Using ...Documento de trabajo. 2019
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The Geography of Repression and Support for Democracy : Evidence from the Pinochet Dictatorship
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; Prem, MounuWe show that exposure to repression under dictatorship increases support for democracy and contributes to regime change when a democratic window of opportunity arises. Studying the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet ...Documento de trabajo. 2018
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The Human Capital Peace Dividend
Namen, Olga; Prem, Mounu; Vargas, Juan F.A large body of literature has documented negative effects of civil conflict on the educational outcomes of affected children across different countries and historical periods. The opposite is however not obvious. Because ...Documento de trabajo. 2019
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The internal labor markets of business groups
Huneeus, Cristobal; Huneeus, Federico; Larrain, Borja; Larrain, Mauricio; Prem, MounuThis paper provides novel micro evidence of labor mobility inside business groups. We show that worker flows between group firms are significantly more prevalent than between unaffiliated firms. We also find that groups ...Documento de trabajo. 2019
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The Peace Baby Boom: Evidence from Colombia's peace agreement with the FARC
Guerra Cújar, María Elvira; Prem, Mounu; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul; Vargas, Juan F.Se sabe que los entornos violentos afectan las opciones de fertilidad del hogar, la demanda de servicios de salud y los resultados de salud de los recién nacidos. Utilizando datos administrativos con diferencias en ...Documento de trabajo. 2020
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The Privatization Origins of Political Corporations
González, Felipe; Prem, Mounu; Urzúa I., FranciscoWe show how the sale of state owned firms in dictatorships may lead to the creation of political corporations operating in democracies. Using several novel datasets, we characterize the privatizations of the Pinochet regime ...Documento de trabajo. 2018
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The rise and persistence of illegal crops : evidence from a naive policy announcement
Mejía, Daniel; Prem, Mounu; Vargas, Juan F.Well-intended policies often have negative unintended consequences if they fail to foresee the different ways in which individuals may respond to the new set of incentives. When widespread and persistent, these may lead ...Documento de trabajo. 2019
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The Value of Political Capital : Dictatorship Collaborators as Business Elites
González, Felipe; Prem, MounuWhat is the value of political capital for individuals? Towards the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, military and civilian collaborators entered the business elite, controlling the largest and most important firms ...Documento de trabajo. 2018