Matias Busso

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Research Economist

1300 New York Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20577

United States

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1.

Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1638, Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 36
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Feb 2008
Matias Busso and Patrick Kline
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Program evaluation, Local economic development, Empowerment zones

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(In)Formal and (Un)Productive: The Productivity Costs of Excessive Informality in Mexico

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-341
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Jan 2013
Matias Busso, Maria Fazio and Santiago Algazi
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3998
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
Matias Busso, John E. DiNardo and Justin McCrary
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Columbia University - Law School
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semiparametric efficiency, propensity score, treatment effects

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The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment

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The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2018
Matias Busso and Sebastian Galiani
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
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Competition, prices, quality, experimental evidence, design of social policies

The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w20054
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2023
Matias Busso and Sebastian Galiani
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
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Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? School Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-462
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Dec 2013
Matias Busso, Marina Bassi and Juan Sebastián Muñoz
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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Adapting to Climate Change: Long-Term Effects of Drought on Local Labor Markets

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-466
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Jan 2014
Paulo Bastos, Matias Busso and Sebastian Miller
World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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Challenges in Educational Reform: An Experiment on Active Learning in Mathematics

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-561
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Mar 2015
Samuel Berlinski and Matias Busso
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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Education, Active learning, Curricular reform, Technology, Field experiments

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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP- 11-07
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 25 Feb 2011
Matias Busso, Jesse Gregory and Patrick Kline
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The Effects of Financial Aid and Returns Information in Selective and Less Selective Schools: Experimental Evidence from Chile

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-743
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Apr 2017
Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman, Claudia A. and Dario Romero
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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Information experiment, Higher education, Financial aid, Returns to education, Chile

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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w16096
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 21 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Matias Busso, Jesse Gregory and Patrick Kline
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Unbundling Returns to Degrees and Skills

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-1089
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Jun 2020
Matias Busso, Juan Sebastián Muñoz and Sebastián Montaño
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Returns to skills, Returns to education, Numeracy, Literacy, Foreign, language, Specific skills, Non-cognitive, Colombia

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Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16449
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 15 Sep 2023
Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño and Juan Muñoz-Morales
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Maryland and Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management
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signaling, skills, wage returns, awards, college reputation, Colombia

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The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Selection: Evidence from Large-Scale Reform in Colombia

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The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Selection: Evidence from Large-Scale Reform in Colombia

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 27 Jul 2023
Nolan Pope, Sebastián Montaño, Juan Muñoz-Morales and Matias Busso
University of Maryland, University of Maryland, Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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Teachers, teaching experience, teacher screening, Colombia, test scores, college enrollment

The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Selection: Evidence from Large-Scale Reform in Colombia

NBER Working Paper No. w33008
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 01 Oct 2024
Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan Muñoz-Morales and Nolan Pope
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Maryland, Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management and University of Maryland
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Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages

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Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages

NBER Working Paper No. w28581
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2023
Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman and Claudia Martínez A.
Inter-American Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Pontificia Universidad Catolina
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Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15949
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman and Claudia Martinez A.
Inter-American Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Selection: Evidence from a Large-Scale Reform in Colombia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17294
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 18 Sep 2024
Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan Muñoz-Morales and Nolan Pope
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Maryland, Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management and University of Maryland
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test scores, Colombia, teacher screening, teaching experience, teachers, college enrollment

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Signaling and Migrant Labor Market Integration: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Dec 2024
Juan Muñoz-Morales, Matias Busso, Carolina Gonzalezvelosa and Cynthia van der Werf
Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank
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Signaling, Skills, Migration, Labor Market Integration, Colombia

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Unbundling Returns to Postsecondary Degrees and Skills: Evidence from Colombia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17283
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Sep 2024
Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño and Juan Muñoz-Morales
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Maryland and Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management
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field-specific, returns to skills, returns to education, numeracy, literacy, foreign language, Colombia

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Productivity and Resource Misallocation in Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-306
Posted: 09 Jun 2012
Matias Busso, Lucia Madrigal and Carmen Pages
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

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