Nicolas Ajzenman

McGill University - Department of Economics

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More Than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior during a Pandemic

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2022
Nicolas Ajzenman, Tiago Cavalcanti and Daniel Da Mata
McGill University - Department of Economics, University of Cambridge and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - Sao Paulo School of Economics
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Health, Coronavirus, Leadership, Persuasion, Risky Behavior, Social Distancing

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Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 13 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2023
Nicolas Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman and Pedro C. Sant'Anna
McGill University - Department of Economics, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics, Students
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Discrimination, Economics Profession, Gender, Race, Social Media

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Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 02 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Nicolas Ajzenman, Patricio Dominguez-Rivera and Raimundo Undurraga
McGill University - Department of Economics, Inter-American Development Bank and New York University (NYU)
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crime, immigration, crime perception, crime beliefs

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Rooting for the Same Team: Shared social identities in a polarized context

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 18 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2025
Nicolas Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman and Pedro C. Sant'Anna
McGill University - Department of Economics, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics, Students
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Social Identity, Affective Polarization, Brazilian Elections, Social Media

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Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 29 Oct 2022
Nicolas Ajzenman, Patricio Dominguez and Raimundo Undurraga
McGill University - Department of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and New York University (NYU)
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crime, immigration, crime perception, media, crime beliefs

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The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption

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The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption

EBRD Working Paper No. 212
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Apr 2018
Nicolas Ajzenman
McGill University - Department of Economics
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Corruption, Social Norms, Culture, Leadership, Civic Values

The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2018
Nicolas Ajzenman
McGill University - Department of Economics
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Culture, Corruption, Social Norms, Values, Institutions, Civicness, Leadership

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On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

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On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2015
Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira
McGill University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
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Drug-related homicides, Poverty, Costs of crime

On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-471
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Jan 2014
Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira
McGill University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
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On the Distributed Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 364
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Jun 2014
Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira
McGill University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Stanford University - Department of Economics
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drug-related homicides, costs of crime, poverty

On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

NBER Working Paper No. w20067
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 01 May 2023
Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira
McGill University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Centro de Investigacion Economica
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Promoting Handwashing Behavior: The Effect of Large-Scale Community and School-Level Interventions

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 17 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2014
Sebastian Galiani, Paul J. Gertler, Alexandra Orsola-Vidal and Nicolas Ajzenman
University of Maryland - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley - Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and McGill University - Department of Economics
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hygiene, handwashing, behavior change, randomized evaluation

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Unraveling the Paradox of Anticorruption Messaging: Experimental Evidence from a Tax Administration Reform

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2025
Nicolas Ajzenman, Martin Ardanaz, Guillermo Cruces, German Feierherd and Ignacio Lunghi
McGill University - Department of Economics, Inter-American Development Bank, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), UdeSA and Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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Corruption, Tax Administration, Tax Evasion, Survey Experiment.

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Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship among the Native Population

EBRD Working Paper
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 Nov 2019
Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Sergei Guriev
McGill University - Department of Economics, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)
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migrant routes, entrepreneurship, public attitudes, political instability

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Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2021
Nicolas Ajzenman and Ruben Durante
McGill University - Department of Economics and National University Singapore
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Elections, Salience, Electoral Punishment, Public Infrastructure, Education

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Humans versus Chatbots: Scaling-up behavioral interventions to reduce teacher shortages

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Nicolas Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Analía Jaimovich and Graciela Pérez-Núñez
McGill University - Department of Economics, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank
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Teachers, teacher policy, teacher shortages, scale-up, behavioral, bots

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The Giving Advice Effect: Reducing Teacher Sorting Through Self-Persuasion *

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Jan 2025
Nicolas Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Macarena Kutscher, Carolina Mendez Vargas and Sonia Suarez
McGill University - Department of Economics, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Maryland, Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank
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JEL classification: D91, I23, I25 Teachers, teacher policy, teacher shortages, behavioral, giving advice

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From Flat to Fair? The Effects of a Progressive Tax Reform

Number of pages: 122 Posted: 31 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2025
Nicolas Ajzenman, Guillermo Cruces, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Dario Tortarolo and Gonzalo Vazquez‐Bare
McGill University - Department of Economics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), World Bank and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics
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progressive taxation, fairness, property tax, tax morale

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Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting using Behavioral Strategies in Peru

Posted: 11 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2023
Nicolas Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta and Carolina Mendez Vargas
McGill University - Department of Economics, University of Turin - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Universidad Diego Portales - Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank
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Identity, Monetary incentives, Priming, Altruism, Prosocial behavior, Teacher sorting