Damián Vergara
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Economist. Assistant Professor @umichECON. Public/Labor. Previously: @decon_uchile➡️@berkeleyecon➡️@PrincetonEcon. Affiliate @nberpubs & @iza_bonn. From 🇨🇱.
Santiago, Chile
Joined November 2012
Excited to announce that with Emmanuel Saez we are making our working hours database publicly available. It covers hours worked in 160 countries, including long time series in 87 countries. Hope it can be useful for research and feedback welcome! 👇 🔗 https://t.co/Ttn2yuzIih
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A large scale survey in Chile is used to analyze whether studying economics makes students more gender biased. In the September issue, by Valentina Paredes, @vale_paredesh, M. Daniele Paserman, @DanielePaserman Francisco J. Pino @franciscopino
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Abstract. We provide direct evidence on explicit and implicit biases against women among students in economics relative to other fields. We conducted a large scale survey among undergraduates in...
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Very cool paper
I am on the #EconJobMarket ! My JMP evaluates what happened to these workers⏬ This is a coal mine in Belgium 🇧🇪 in 1907. They are working more than 10 hours per day. Then, the government imposed a maximum 9h workday. What happens to wages and employment? A JMP🧶(1/12)
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I'm hiring a Post-Doc @econ_uzh to work with me and my team at the frontier of tax policy and inequality research! Funded by my Consolidator Grant, no teaching, flexible start date and duration. Apply here: https://t.co/LUyaEXHZQp
@ERC_Research @snsf_ch
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Instead of testing for bias from potential misspecification of model restrictions, it's nearly optimal to adapt, averaging restricted and unrestricted estimates using data-driven weights. shinyApp: https://t.co/i8cYk2fP5p Paper: https://t.co/Wdc5U8Mh3s
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Happy to see our "Place-Based Redistribution" paper finally out at the AER! For anyone familiar with the earlier version, check out the final one as the (hugely) revised version has plenty of new results, analyses, intuitions, etc.
The October 2025 issue of the American Economic Review (115, 10) is now available online at https://t.co/A5E2acXQJ5.
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📢 Call for Small Grant Proposals 📢 Measuring the causal effect of a policy change and seeking to measure its Marginal Value of Public Funds? Apply for an Early Career Scholars Grant @policyimpacts to support your work: https://t.co/PAiwBRdj3J
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Policy Impacts seeks proposals from early-career scholars who are currently conducting well-identified analyses of government policy changes and who are seeking to translate those estimates into...
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En el ensayo también hay un link con comentarios técnicos sobre el estudio del @bcentralchile que motivó la discusión. Esperamos que estos comentarios sirvan para avanzar hacia un consenso técnico sobre las estimaciones ya que precisar la magnitud del efecto empleo es importante
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Dada la discusión sobre el salario mínimo que se ha dado las últimas semanas, con @Blopa1988 escribimos este ensayo: https://t.co/2s3HxHR5mw Resumen: el debate es harto más complejo de lo que se plantea. Reducir la discusión al efecto empleo no permite un análisis riguroso.
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Medio de investigación periodística independiente en Chile, enfocado en reportajes de actualidad y brindar información de calidad a la ciudadanía.
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My chapter on non-wage amenities is now published in the Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 6.
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Studying how collective bargaining affects both wages and amenities, from @lagoslorenzo
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Empirically studying the effects of minimum wages on the distribution of firm wage premia, finding significant effects of the minimum wage on firm fixed effects levels, from Marcelo L. Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Mathias Fondo, and Damián Vergara https://t.co/i03x3vhSGc
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We are hiring several full-time predoctoral #research fellows to start in summer 2026. If you are considering a PhD, interested in #bigdata, #economicopportunity, or #mobility scholarship, a #predoc fellowship at @OppInsights could be a great next step. https://t.co/zfFqstOvmX
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Join us in our mission to revive the American Dream
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution" by Daniel Haanwinckel.
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(December 2025) - This paper examines how workforce composition, labor demand, and minimum wage jointly determine wages through their effects on worker-task assignments, firm wage premiums, and...
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Join us at Copenhagen Business School on Sep 29 for a full-day workshop on Gender Norms, Family Dynamics, and Labor Market Outcomes 🔗 Registration: https://t.co/89iBAmQNPf Featuring: @LibertadGonLu @Sevilla_Almu @landais_camille @philrosenb @SettSonja and more 👇
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🥹🤍💙 "Mi corazón es Cruzado" Adrián Chauque, vocalista de la banda Adrián y Los Dados Negros, habló con TNT Sports y reveló lo orgulloso que sintió al cantar en el show de medio tiempo en el Claro Arena. También, aprovechó de decir su devoción por Fernando Zampedri y se sacó
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The asymmetry stems from tax avoidance with sunk costs: taxpayers ramp up avoidance when taxes rise but don't undo it when taxes fall. https://t.co/sIOrVTeg9n 13/13
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Managers and Public Hospital Performance" by Pablo Muñoz and Cristóbal Otero.
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(November 2025) - We study whether the quality of managers can affect public service provision in the context of public health. Using novel data from public hospitals in Chile, we show how the...
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2019,” by Amory Gethin (@amorygethin):
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Abstract. This article quantifies the role played by education in the reduction of global poverty. I propose tools for identifying the contribution of scho
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Place-Based Redistribution" by Cecile Gaubert, Patrick Kline, Damian Vergara, and Danny Yagan.
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