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...

El Informe IEB sobre Federalismo Fiscal y Finanzas Públicas se publica cada año, desde 2009, con el objetivo de analizar cuestiones de gran relevancia y actualidad relacionadas con el federalismo fiscal y las finanzas públicas.

El acceso a la vivienda se ha convertido en un problema mayúsculo. Según datos de los últimos barómetros del CIS y del CEO, el acceso a la vivienda figura entre los problemas que más preocupan a la ciudadanía en nuestro país. Estas preocupaciones tienen bases objetivas. Según datos de la...

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....