Intertemporal choice experiments and large-stakes behavior
Intertemporal choice experiments are frequently implemented to make inference about time preferences, yet little is known about the predictive power of resulting measures. This project links standard experimental choices to a decision on the desire to smooth a large-stakes payment — around 10% of annual income — through time. In a sample of around 400 […]
Persistencia de la pobreza e informalidad laboral en Colombia: un estudio para hogares de ingresos bajos y medios
En Colombia se ha identificado la existencia de pobreza persistente a nivel regional. En el presente trabajo buscamos brindar evidencia sobre el impacto que tiene en especial la informalidad laboral sobre la persistencia en la pobreza a nivel de hogar. Para ello, proponemos estimar un modelo logit multinomial a partir de la Encuesta Longitudinal Colombiana […]
Price discrimination in informal labor markets in bogotá: an audit experiment during the 2018 fifa world cup
We conducted an audit experiment to examine whether street vendors in Bogot´a (Colombia) exert price discrimination based on buyers’ attributes, such as gender and nationality; and based on product characteristics, such as the increasing marginal valuation of items needed to complete a collection. We exploited the seasonal demand for album stickers related to the FIFA […]
Provision of noxious facilities using a market-like mechanism:a simple implementation in the lab
We study the provision of a public project that globally behaves as a public good but locally behaves as a private bad. This scenario imposes two problems: (i) finding a compensation that makes the project acceptable for the pre-determined host, and (ii) securing the budget to pay for the project and the required compensation. We […]