Los desastres naturales son descritos a menudo como fenómenos fortuitos, ajenos a nuestra voluntad. Tras el devastador terremoto y tsunami que sacudió Lisboa en 1755 –un episodio que mató a decenas de miles de personas y casi borró del mapa la ciudad– los principales filósofos europeos debatieron sobre su significado....

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.

Dominant groups worldwide have historically asserted power by constructing in public spaces monuments that glorify their narrative, vis-à-vis their opponents’. How do divisive public símbols affect the location choices of those who oppose them? I investigate this historically and today, focusing on Confederate monuments in the US South - erected...

I study how a childcare quality law affected enrollment and parental employment in Spain. The policy established the first formal requirements for nursery schools serving children aged 0 to 3. Using administrative data and regional variation in implementation, I find that the reform raised childcare quality by 0.10 standard deviations...

We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretation of a policy question—affect the variation in estimated treatment effects. A total of 146 research teams each completed the same causal inference task three times each: first with few constraints,...

This paper examines the impact of a 22% minimum wage increase in Spain on January 2019 on intimate partner violence using a doubly robust difference-in-differences strategy with inverse probability weighting and the nationally representative Survey of Violence Against Women. We find no effect of the reform on physical or sexual...