Aunque inicialmente la teoría económica y la investigación empírica subrayaban los posibles efectos del salario mínimo legal vigente sobre la destrucción de empleo, existe una creciente evidencia empírica –basada en metodologías más eficientes y mejores bases de datos– que ha mejorado nuestra comprensión de las políticas de salario mínimo y...

Student performance at university significantly influences individual decisions and future opportunities, especially in labour markets. This paper analyses the impact of local crime on student performance during higher education, with a focus on potential gender differences. Following students over their bachelor’s years, the identification strategy exploits granular local crime variation...

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.