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The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University
Cecilia Machado, Germán Reyes, Evan Riehl
We examine the effects of an affirmative action policy at an elite Brazilian university that reserved 45 percent of admission slots for Black and low-income students. We find that…
The Shifting Attention of Political Leaders: Evidence from Two Centuries of Presidential Speeches
Oscar Calvo-González, Axel Eizmendi, Germán Reyes
We use natural-language-processing algorithms on a novel dataset of over 900 presidential speeches from ten Latin American countries spanning two centuries to study the dynamics an…
Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville +1
Opportunities, such as access to education or family background, shape income inequality by influencing the chances of economic success. Unequal opportunities create uncertainty ab…
Coarse Wage-Setting and Behavioral Firms
Germán Reyes
This paper shows that the bunching of wages at round numbers is partly driven by firm coarse wage-setting. Using data from over 200 million new hires in Brazil, I first establish t…
Are Fairness Perceptions Shaped by Income Inequality? Evidence from Latin America
Leonardo Gasparini, Germán Reyes
A common assumption in the literature is that the level of income inequality shapes individuals' beliefs about whether the income distribution is fair (``fairness views,'' for shor…