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    • Competition among schools and educational quality: tension between various objectives of educational policy 
      Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Gajardo, Felipe (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-05)
      Using Chilean data for fourth grade students, this research studies the effect of competition among schools on the results of standardized tests, academic self-esteem and motivation, the climate within the school, civic ...
    • Industrial Policy in Chile 
      Agosín Trumper, Manuel; Larraín, Christian; Grau Veloso, Nicolás (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)
      Chile has experimented with practically every type of industrial policy in the book: from heavy import substitution, public ownership of domestic firms, directed credit, and heavy use of development banking; to a completely ...
    • Juvenile incarceration and adult recidivism 
      Cortés, Tomás; Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)
      Although there is debate about whether juvenile incarceration deters future crime, it is a common practice worldwide. We contribute to this debate by using Chilean data to assess the causal impact of different types of ...
    • School Closure and Educational Attainment: Evidence from a Market-based System 
      Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Hojman Trujillo, Daniel; Mizala Salcés, Alejandra (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      This paper studies the effect of school closure in the Chilean market-oriented educational system. Between 2000 and 2012 the system exhibited a large turnover: 1,651 schools closed -roughly one-sixth of the current stock- ...
    • The effects of the minimum wage on employment and wages 
      Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Miranda, Jorge; Puentes Encina, Esteban (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      The effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes is controversial. There are several studies for developed countries with mixed results, but there is a lack of evidence for developing countries. We have access to ...
    • The impact of college admissions policies on the academic effort of high school students 
      Grau Veloso, Nicolás (Elsevier, 2018)
      This paper empirically evaluates the effects of college admissions policies on high school students’ academic effort. I build a rank-order tournament model where high school students decide their level of effort and ...
    • The Impact of Grade Retention on Juvenile Crime 
      Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Reyes Hinrichsen, Tatiana; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge; Diaz, Juan (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      Using detailed administrative and individual data on schooling and crime records from Chile, we estimate the effect of grade retention between 4th and 8th grade on juvenile crime. We base our research on the rule which ...
    • The Impact of Prison Labor Programs on Recidivism: The Case of Chile 
      Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Gómez Baeza, Francisca (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      We estimate the effect of prison labor programs on recidivism using a nationwide census-based dataset of all prison inmates released in 2010 in Chile and tracked for two years after release. Because participation in ...