Tomás Rau
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View article: Peer Effects in the Adoption of a Youth Employment Subsidy
Peer Effects in the Adoption of a Youth Employment Subsidy Open
This paper studies the effects of peers on the adoption of a Youth Employment Subsidy in Chile since its inception. We examine the effects that former classmates' and coworkers' adoption have on one's adoption. Identification comes from di…
View article: Replication data for: Peer Effects in the Adoption of a Youth Employment Subsidy
Replication data for: Peer Effects in the Adoption of a Youth Employment Subsidy Open
Mora-García, Claudio A., and Rau, Tomás, (2023) “Peer Effects in the Adoption of a Youth Employment Subsidy.” Review of Economics and Statistics 105:3, 614–625.
View article: The Effects of Increasing Penalties in Drunk Driving Laws—Evidence from Chile
The Effects of Increasing Penalties in Drunk Driving Laws—Evidence from Chile Open
This paper analyzes Chile’s drunk driving laws and their effects on car crashes, injuries, and deaths. There were two policy changes. While the 2012 law increased license suspension penalties and decreased the legal blood alcohol limits fo…
View article: The Children of the Missed Pill
The Children of the Missed Pill Open
We use sharp, massive and unexpected price increases of oral contraceptives—product of a documented case of collusion among pharmaceutical retailers in Chile—as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of access to the Pill on fertility…
View article: A Matching Estimator Based on a Bilevel Optimization Problem
A Matching Estimator Based on a Bilevel Optimization Problem Open
This paper proposes a novel matching estimator where neighbors used and weights are endogenously determined by optimizing a covariate balancing criterion. The estimator is based on finding, for each unit that needs to be matched, sets of o…