This paper examines the impact of a substantial minimum wage increase in Uruguay—a middle-income developing economy—on wages and employment. Using administrative data and a difference-in-differences approach, we analyze the consequences of a 2005 policy reform that raised the real minimum wage by 80% within a year. Our findings show that...

We examine the impact of city council members with real estate backgrounds on housing supply in California 1995-2019. Using candidate occupation data and a close-elections regression discontinuity design, we find that electing a developer increases approved housing units by 68% during their term. This effect fades after one term, suggesting...

We examine how information influences the marginal willingness to pay taxes (MWTPT) through a four-wave randomized survey experiment conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we assess the impact of quantitative (data on the actual tax-to-GDP ratio) and qualitative (basic pros and cons of taxation) information on revealed MWTPT. The results...

L’Informe IEB sobre Federalisme Fiscal i Finances Públiques es publica cada any, des de 2009, amb l’objectiu d’analitzar qüestions de gran rellevància i actualitat relacionades amb el federalisme fiscal i les finances públiques.

L’accés a l’habitatge s’ha convertit en un problema majúscul. Segons dades dels últims baròmetres del CIS i del CEO, l’accés a l’habitatge està entre els problemes que més preocupen la ciutadania a casa nostra. Aquestes preocupacions tenen bases objectives. Segons dades de l’OCDE, a Espanya, la despesa en habitatge com...

This paper investigates how the interplay between politics and firms influences the profil·les of political candidates and their policy decisions. Specifically, we analyze the effects of an anti-revolving door law, which impose a mandatory “cooling-off” period before former politicians can take significant positions in the bureaucracy or in state-owned enterprises....