We estimate the value of a public health system exploiting a conjoint experiment in nationally representative surveys in Brazil, France and the United States in which respondents choose between different societies that randomly vary in their economic outcomes (country income, income inequality, social mobility), political outcomes (public healthcare, democracy), and...

La pobreza energética es aquella situación en la que un hogar no puede acceder a los servicios energéticos esenciales con el fin de preservar un nivel de vida y salud digno (Comisión Europea, 2023). El porcentaje de la población que no puede mantener su vivienda a una temperatura adecuada es...

La participación de las mujeres en el mercado laboral ha convergido con la de los hombres en numerosas economías con un alto nivel de ingresos en las últimas décadas. Por ejemplo, en la zona euro (según datos de mercado de trabajo de Eurostat), el porcentaje de mujeres empleadas en la...

The prevalence and determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) among older women are understudied. This paper documents that the incidence of IPV remains high at old ages and provides the first evidence of the impact of access to income on IPV for older women. We leverage a Mexican reform that...

This paper provides a theoretical framework to study the relationship between expanded road capacity, traffic volumes and increased economic activity. We build on Anas (2024) to show that increased traffic volumes do not necessarily lead to congestion if adjustments in econòmic factors, such as population or employment, are not substantial....

This paper examines the lasting impact of tourism specialization on per capita income in Spanish municipalities, aiming to understand the factors driving these effects. We employ two distinct approaches. The first one focuses on tourism development since the initial boom in the 1960s and relies on cross-sectional variation in tourism...