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The Legacy of the Spanish Conquista in the Andes: Beliefs, Social Unrest, and Long-Run Economic Development (joint with Cesar Huaroto).
(Instituto de Economía UC, 2023) Huaroto, César; Gallego Yañez, Francisco Antonio
This paper studies the persistent effect on social unrest of the Mining Mita- a colonial forced labor and migration institution that affected indigenous communities in Peru between 1573 to 1811. Using a geographical regression discontinuity design for identification, we provide causal evidence that Mita areas have experienced higher levels of social unrest since the end of the 18th century. We present a simple conceptual rationale with historical and causal evidence indicating that at least part of the roots of such persistence is cultural. Specifically, people living in Mita districts identify more with the indigenous groups and indigenous institutions, are more likely to speak native languages, are less likely to migrate, and have different beliefs about development and democracy.
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Does Short Term School Tutoring have Medium Term Effects? Experimental Evidence from Chile
(Instituto de Economía UC, 2021) Cabezas, Verónica; Cuesta, José Ignacio; Gallego Yañez, Francisco Antonio
This paper explores how short-term tutoring affects educational outcomes in the shortand medium-term. We implemented a randomized experiment of a three-month small group tutoring program in Chile that aimed at improving reading outcomes among fourth graders using college student volunteers. We find small short-term effects on reading outcomes. Using administrative data covering up to eight years after the program ended, we find significant decreases in the probability of dropping out, increases in the probability of timely school progression, and increases in attendance, school grades and test scores. These effects are stronger for students who were ex-ante more likely to drop-out from school. The program effects are stronger for students who established stronger personal connections with the tutors. Our results suggest that tutoring programs may have relevant medium-term effects that go beyond short-term impacts on specific subjects with stronger effects on more at-risk children.
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Local Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from the Chilean Agricultural Sector
(Banco Central de Chile, 2015) Cuesta, José Ignacio; Gallego Yáñez, Francisco; González, Felipe A.; Caballero, Ricardo J.; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
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Comunicación, cambio de representaciones sociales y seguridad en barrios violentos
(Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, 2007) Ruiz Jabbaz, M. Soledad; Krause Jacob, Mariane; Helsper Ellen, Johanna; Godoy, Álvaro; Reyes, Carlos; Quezada, María Inés
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An ergodic theorem for permanents of oblong matrices
(2016) Da Silva Bochi, Jairo; Iommi Echeverría, Godofredo; Ponce Acevedo, Mario
We forma sequence of oblong matrices by evaluating an integrable vector-valued function along the orbit of an ergodic dynamical system. We obtain an almost sure asymptotic result for the permanents of those matrices. We also give an application to symmetric means.