The Gale-Shapley algorithm is one of the most popular college allocation mechanism around the world. A crucial policy question in its setting is designing admission priorities for students, understanding how they disadvantage certain demographic groups, and whether these di_erences are related to di_erences in college performance potential (i.e., whether these...

We conducted a randomized evaluation of a universal primary prevention intervention whose main goal was to increase the resilience of students from a large broad-access Hispanic Serving Institution and commuter urban college. In a 90-minute workshop, students were: introduced to the resilient-thinking approach, which offers conceptual tools to cope with...

El estudio del impacto económico de la inmigración en las regiones receptoras ha sido un área de investigación muy frecuente en los últimos 30 años y sigue atrayendo la atención de los académicos y de los responsables políticos.1 Los desplazamientos recientes de un gran volumen de población han renovado el...

Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed effects while accounting for occupational and firm sorting. Our findings...

We implemented a randomized control trial in Georgia to study how labels and food vouchers affect household expenditure among low-income recipients of unconditional cash transfers. Households were randomly assigned to receive only an unconditional cash transfer, a label indicating an amount intended for children’s expenses in addition to the transfer,...

D’acord amb el Pacte Verd Europeu, assolir una economia europea descarbonitzada, pròspera, justa i inclusiva a l’any 2050 implica resoldre de manera urgent una complexa equació que engloba no només els reptes econòmics i ambientals, sinó també els aspectes socials. Això origina una forta aposta per garantir l’accés a una...