Articles
Distributive Effects of Regional Trade Agreements on the ‘Small Trading Partners’: Mercosur and the Case of Uruguay and Paraguay (with Fernando Borraz and Daniel Ferres), Journal of Development Studies (2012)
It is disputed whether trade liberalisation processes are sufficient for reducing poverty and inequality. We...
Permissiveness toward Illegal Actions in Uruguay: Has This Attitude Changed in Time? (with Natalia Melgar), Economics Research International (2012)
The aim of this paper is to assess the willingness to justify illegal actions (or...
When Do People Become Adults? The Uruguayan Case (with Natalia Melgar), International Journal of Population Research / Hindawi Publishing Corporation (2012)
This paper explores the key experiences that Uruguayans consider relevant for becoming an adult in...
A Cross-Country Analysis of the Risk Factors for Depression at the Micro and Macro Levels (with Natalia Melgar), American Journal of Economics and Sociology (2012)
Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics (age, gender, religion)...
Assessment of the distributive impact of national trade reforms in Brazil (with Fernando Borraz and Daniel Ferres), JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY (2012)
This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of trade liberalization in Brazil using household...
Working Papers
Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay (with Nora Lustig, Marisa Bucheli, and Florencia Amabile), dECON-Working Papers (2012)
How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes? How progressive are revenue...
Religion, religiosity and depression: re-assessing their relationship (with Shoshana Neuman and Natalia Melgar), dECON_Working papers (2012)
We provide evidence on the significant effect of religiosity (measured by attendance to religious services)...
Victimización y justicia por mano propia en Uruguay (with Fernando Borraz and Cecilia Chouhy), dECON-Working Papers (2012)
This article analyzes the attitude of the Uruguayans towards the subjection to the law in...
Percepción medioambiental de los ciudadanos latinoamericanos (with Natalia Melgar, Carolina Clark, and Maria Fernanda Milans), dECON-Working Papers (2011)
The main goal of this study is to assess public opinion views on environmental problems...
Polarization and the Middle Class (with Fernando Borraz and Nicolas Gonzalez), dECON_Working papers (2011)
There is an increasing literature that discusses how to measure the middle class. Some approaches...
Presentations
Gasto social, impuestos y redistribución de ingresos en Uruguay (with Florencia Amabile, Marisa Bucheli, and Nora Lustig), XI Jornadas de Investigación / Facultad de Ciencias Sociales / UdelaR (2012)
ÍNDICE XI Jornadas de Investigación “La Educación bajo la lupa” 1. Objetivo, datos y construcción...
A cross-country analysis of the risk factors for depression at the micro and macro level (with Natalia Melgar), Conference - Universidad de Granada (2010)
Depression is one of the most widespread mental illnesses that affect people worldwide for very...
Threats in Latin American and Caribbean countries: how do inequality and the asymmetries of rules affect tax morale? (with Juan Pablo Pagano, Natalia Melgar, and Mariana Gerstenblüth), 9th Arnoldshain Seminar- Montevideo-Punta del Este, 5-9 October 2009 (2009)
Latin America is well known as the most inequitable region. As it is recognized, inequality...