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Double Taxation Treaties with the US and Environmental Quality in Emerging Economies Open

Alberto Chong, Erica Mtenga · 2025

We focus on the role of double taxation treaties on environmental quality, to our knowledge the first empirical study to do so. Tax treaties are primarily implemented to remove double taxation, which helps promote international trade and i…

Exposure to Anger and Performance Open

Alberto Chong · 2025

Double Taxation Treaties with the United States and Environmental Quality in Emerging Economies Open

Erica Mtenga, Alberto Chong · 2024

Exposure to Anger and Performance Open

Alberto Chong · 2024

Edutainment, Savings, and Generational Differences in Rural Areas of Peru Open

Alberto Chong, Martín Valdivia · 2023

Soap Operas and Pro-Savings Attitudes in Poor Rural Areas of Peru Open

Alberto Chong, Martín Valdivia · 2023

Edutainment, Savings, and Generational Differences in Rural Areas of Peru Open

Alberto Chong, Martín Valdivia · 2023

Soap Operas and Pro-Savings Attitudes in Poor Rural Areas of Peru Open

Alberto Chong, Martín Valdivia · 2023

Does Trade Liberalization Foster Intimate Partner Violence? Open

Alberto Chong, Daniel Velásquez · 2022

By exploiting an unexpected policy change in the form of drastic tariffs reduction across several industries in Peru during the 2000s we are able to causally show that in districts where industries’ employment are predominantly male, trade…

Does Education Increase Risk Aversion in Households? Some Evidence Using Artefactual Experiments in Peru Open

Alberto Chong, Joan J. Martinez · 2021

We provide empirical evidence supporting a causal link between education and risk attitudes when using representative data from representative surveys and artefactual or lab-on-the-field experiments in Lima, Peru. We employ three standard …

Replication Data for: Computers and Discretion: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Experiments Open

Daniel Velásquez, Alberto Chong, Mónica Yáñez‐Pagans · 2021

Files used to recreate tables and figures of the paper.

Systemic Financial Crises and Income Inequality in OECD Countries Open

Carla Srebot, Puneet Arora, Alberto Chong · 2021

Business training for women entrepreneurs in the Kyrgyz Republic: evidence from a randomised controlled trial Open

Alberto Chong, Irene Velez · 2020

We design and apply a randomised controlled trial that seeks to examine the overall impact of a nationwide training program for female entrepreneurs that own small or medium businesses in the tourism and garment sectors in the Kyrgyz Repub…

Social Conflict in Rural Regions and Firm Ownership: Evidence from the Mining Sector in Latin America Open

Alberto Chong, Paul Alexander Haslam · 2020

Using firm-level data for five countries in Latin America we find a negative and statistically significant link between social conflict in rural areas and ownership of mines. This result suggests that the social conflict around mining proj…

Social Conflict in Rural Regions and Firm Ownership: Evidence from the Mining Sector in Latin America Open

Alberto Chong, Paul Alexander Haslam · 2020

Using firm-level data for five countries in Latin America we find a negative and statistically significant link between social conflict in rural areas and ownership of mines. This result suggests that the social conflict around mining proj…

Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers' Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia Open

Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martín Valdivia · 2019

This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course implemented across public junior high schools in 21 Colombian cities. Six months after finishing the course, the study …

ReadMe.pdf Open

Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martín Valdivia · 2019

This document contains the information on the files, folder structure, and technical specifications needed to replicate the results of the project. Additionally, the tables that are not reproducible with this code are outlined.

Colombia, Sex Ed Dataverse Files.zip Open

Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martín Valdivia · 2019

This zip file contains the folder structure necessary to replicate this study and the ReadMe for download.

adofiles.zip Open

Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martín Valdivia · 2019

This file contains the user-written commands necessary to run the do-file for this project.

Recreational Marijuana Laws and Junk Food Consumption: Evidence Using Border Analysis and Retail Sales Data Open

Michele Baggio, Alberto Chong · 2019

Neighborhoods, Social Class, and Reciprocity: Evidence Using Representative Artefactual Data from Latin America Open

Arlette Beltrán, Alberto Chong, Mariano Montoya · 2019

We study if urban class segregation destroys social capital in Latin America using experimental data that are representative for six Latin American cities. In particular, we focus on whether belonging to upper class neighborhoods impacts r…

National Income and Trust Open

Markus Brückner, Alberto Chong, Mark Gradstein · 2019

We explore whether national economic prosperity enhances mutual generalized trust. This is done using panel data of multiple waves of the World Values Surveys, whereby national income levels are instrumented for using exogenous oil price s…

Does Social Conflict in Rural Regions DecreaseFirm Ownership? Evidence from the MiningSector in Latin America Open

Alberto Chong, Paul Alexander Haslam · 2019

Using firm-level data for five countries in Latin America, we find a negative and statistically significant link between social conflict in rural areas and ownership of mines. We apply an instrumental variables approach and find that this …

Sex, Drugs, and Baby Booms: Can Behavior Overcome Biology? Open

Michele Baggio, Alberto Chong, David Simon · 2018

We study the behavioral changes due to marijuana consumption on fertility and its key mechanisms, as opposed to physiological changes.We can employ several large proprietary data sets, including the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of You…

Migration, Jobs, and Real Exchange Rates in the Philippines Open

Alberto Chong · 2018

This study tests whether exchange rate appreciation due to migration is tempered by the hiring of part-time workers.Quarterly data from 1994 to 2015 for the Philippines are employed.We find that not only increase in remittances, but also i…

Social Interactions and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay: The Role of Urbanization Patterns on the Effectiveness of GOVT Campaigns Open

Alberto Chong, Gianmarco León, Vivian Roza, Martín Valdivia, Gabriela Vega · 2018

We use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in Paraguay. We find that public campaigns had no effect either on the probability of registrat…

Replication Data for: Urbanization Patterns, Information Diffusion and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay Open

Gianmarco León, Alberto Chong, Martín Valdivia, Vivian Roza, Gabriela Vega · 2018

We use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in rural areas of Paraguay. We find that public rallies have a small and insignificant effect e…

PY_dataset.tab Open

Gianmarco León, Alberto Chong, Martín Valdivia, Vivian Roza, Gabriela Vega · 2018

Main dataset to replicate the results in the paper.

Government effectiveness in the provision of public goods: the role of institutional quality Open

Puneet Arora, Alberto Chong · 2018

While poorer countries have a much smaller public sector and correspondingly a smaller tax burden than richer countries, their economic performance has not been necessarily better. This paper discusses the role that institutional quality p…

Master_dofile-FF.do Open

Gianmarco León, Alberto Chong, Martín Valdivia, Vivian Roza, Gabriela Vega · 2018

Main do file to replicate the results of the paper

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