Sergio Urzúa-Martínez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1664807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio Urzúa-Martínez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio |
| FAMILY NAME | Urzúa-Martínez |
| SIGNATURE | URZÚA-MARTÍNEZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Santiago de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6668-7170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What makes a program good? Evidence from short-cycle higher education programs in five developing countries
Dynamic treatment effects of job training
This paper estimates the dynamic returns to job training. We posit a model of sequential training participation, where decisions and outcomes depend on observed and unobserved characteristics. We analyze different treatment effects, including policy relevant parameters, and link them to continuation values and latent skills. The empirical analysis exploits administrative data combining job training records, matched employee‐employer information, …
Protestar y peregrinar en Santiago de Chile. El caso de la animita de Mauricio Fredes durante la revuelta chilena
Animitas are artifacts of a popular religious practice present in Chile and other parts of the Andean world. They are built where someone meets death, far from home and the company of their loved ones. They are generally associated with tragic, bloody or violent deaths, as happened in Santiago de Chile during the social revolt with Mauricio Fredes, a young demonstrator who died in the center of the capital as a result of police repression. The an…
Does an Increasing Minimum Wage Reduce Formal Sector Employment? Evidence from Brazil
Between 2003 and 2012, Brazil’s real minimum wage increased by 62%. In this paper, we take advantage of matched employer-employee data and examine whether this increase resulted in negative impacts in the formal labor market. The empirical analysis is carried out at the local level. Our main identification strategy relies on geographical variation in the incidence of the minimum wage. We first document substantial heterogeneity in the incidence b…
Impacto de un programa de lectoescritura en el rendimiento académico de estudiantes de primer año universitario en Chile
En la última década, las instituciones de educación superior han desplegado una serie de programas para enseñar a leer y escribir en este nivel educativo; sin embargo, poco se conoce del efecto de estas iniciativas sobre el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes. El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar el impacto de uno de estos programas en el desempeño académico de estudiantes de primer año de Psicología que asistían a las sedes regio…
Violencia, complicidad e impunidad: Los actores económicos en la dictadura de Pinochet
Education, Birth Order and Family Size
This article introduces a framework to study parental investments in the presence of birth order preferences and/or human capital cost differentials across children. The framework yields canonical models as special cases and delivers sharp testable predictions concerning how parental investments respond to an exogenous change in family size in the presence of birth order effects. These predictions characterize a generalised quantity–quality trade…
Estructura Interna e Invarianza Métrica de la Escala de Autoeficacia Académica Ases
AIM: The study presents the results of the adaptation of an academic self-efficacy scale. Specifically, the purpose of the study was to analyse the internal structure of the translation and adaptation of the ASES scale by Chemers, Hu y García (2001). METHOD: 4950 Chilean university students participated. Additionally, to study the Equivalence/Invariance of Measurement between different groups of students, we have performed a factorial invariance …
Aportes a una etnografía de los movimientos feministas: Recursos expresivos en las marchas #Ni una menos y #8M en Santiago de Chile
The #Ni una menos and #8M marches were central to the Chilean feminist movement’s accumulation of power. In them, a wide repertoire of expressive resources was used aimed at building audiences and publicize the meaning of the denouncements. Based on fieldwork involving observation and photographic records of these political demonstrations (held in Santiago de Chile in 2017 and 2018), this work provides a description of the resources used, and a r…
Huelga de Hambre: Dolor, Sufrimiento y Visibilización del Conflicto Social
This paper is a theoretical reflection about the hunger strike conducted by Chilean students under the student movement of 2011. In this context, the hunger strike, was established as a tool to visibilize the suffering and denaturalize the repression through a sacrificial act where the bodies are exposed to pain. It is precisely this exhibition that allows dominated sectors to break into the public space, dispute their hegemony and achieve social…
Cuerpos en confrontación. Hacia un análisis del cuerpo y las emociones en la manifestación política en Chile neoliberal
Este trabajo se centra en la relación existente entre la represión como procedimiento disciplinario, en tanto moldea y encauza a los cuerpos a aceptar el orden social dominante, y las emociones que surgen cuando los cuerpos se ven confrontados en el marco de una manifestación política. Se sostendrá que, en dicha confrontación, los cuerpos materializan emociones que tienen su origen en la legitimación política de la violencia que el Estado chileno…
The Education-Health Gradient
In this paper, we determine the role played by early cognitive, noncognitive, and health endowments. We identify the causal effect of education on health and health-related behaviors. We develop an empirical model of schooling choice and post-schooling outcomes, where both schooling and the outcomes determined in part by schooling are influenced by measured early family environments and latent capabilities (cognitive, noncognitive and health). We…
The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior
This paper established that a low dimensional vector of cognitive and noncognitive skills explains a variety of labor market and behavioral outcomes. For many dimensions of social performance cognitive and noncognitive skills are equally important. Our analysis addresses the problems of measurement error, imperfect proxies, and reverse causality that plague conventional studies of cognitive and noncognitive skills that regress earnings (and other…
Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity
This paper examines the properties of instrumental variables (IV) applied to models with essential heterogeneity, that is, models where responses to interventions are heterogeneous and agents adopt treatments (participate in programs) with at least partial knowledge of their idiosyncratic response. We analyze two-outcome and multiple-outcome models, including ordered and unordered choice models. We allow for transition-specific and general instru…
Aportes a una etnografía de los movimientos feministas: Recursos expresivos en las marchas #Ni una menos y #8M en Santiago de Chile
The #Ni una menos and #8M marches were central to the Chilean feminist movement’s accumulation of power. In them, a wide repertoire of expressive resources was used aimed at building audiences and publicize the meaning of the denouncements. Based on fieldwork involving observation and photographic records of these political demonstrations (held in Santiago de Chile in 2017 and 2018), this work provides a description of the resources used, and a r…
Protestar y peregrinar en Santiago de Chile. El caso de la animita de Mauricio Fredes durante la revuelta chilena
Animitas are artifacts of a popular religious practice present in Chile and other parts of the Andean world. They are built where someone meets death, far from home and the company of their loved ones. They are generally associated with tragic, bloody or violent deaths, as happened in Santiago de Chile during the social revolt with Mauricio Fredes, a young demonstrator who died in the center of the capital as a result of police repression. The an…
Education, Birth Order and Family Size
This article introduces a framework to study parental investments in the presence of birth order preferences and/or human capital cost differentials across children. The framework yields canonical models as special cases and delivers sharp testable predictions concerning how parental investments respond to an exogenous change in family size in the presence of birth order effects. These predictions characterize a generalised quantity–quality trade…
The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior
This paper established that a low dimensional vector of cognitive and noncognitive skills explains a variety of labor market and behavioral outcomes. For many dimensions of social performance cognitive and noncognitive skills are equally important. Our analysis addresses the problems of measurement error, imperfect proxies, and reverse causality that plague conventional studies of cognitive and noncognitive skills that regress earnings (and other…
Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity
This paper examines the properties of instrumental variables (IV) applied to models with essential heterogeneity, that is, models where responses to interventions are heterogeneous and agents adopt treatments (participate in programs) with at least partial knowledge of their idiosyncratic response. We analyze two-outcome and multiple-outcome models, including ordered and unordered choice models. We allow for transition-specific and general instru…
The Education-Health Gradient
In this paper, we determine the role played by early cognitive, noncognitive, and health endowments. We identify the causal effect of education on health and health-related behaviors. We develop an empirical model of schooling choice and post-schooling outcomes, where both schooling and the outcomes determined in part by schooling are influenced by measured early family environments and latent capabilities (cognitive, noncognitive and health). We…
Cuerpos en confrontación. Hacia un análisis del cuerpo y las emociones en la manifestación política en Chile neoliberal
Este trabajo se centra en la relación existente entre la represión como procedimiento disciplinario, en tanto moldea y encauza a los cuerpos a aceptar el orden social dominante, y las emociones que surgen cuando los cuerpos se ven confrontados en el marco de una manifestación política. Se sostendrá que, en dicha confrontación, los cuerpos materializan emociones que tienen su origen en la legitimación política de la violencia que el Estado chileno…
Huelga de Hambre: Dolor, Sufrimiento y Visibilización del Conflicto Social
This paper is a theoretical reflection about the hunger strike conducted by Chilean students under the student movement of 2011. In this context, the hunger strike, was established as a tool to visibilize the suffering and denaturalize the repression through a sacrificial act where the bodies are exposed to pain. It is precisely this exhibition that allows dominated sectors to break into the public space, dispute their hegemony and achieve social…
Estructura Interna e Invarianza Métrica de la Escala de Autoeficacia Académica Ases
AIM: The study presents the results of the adaptation of an academic self-efficacy scale. Specifically, the purpose of the study was to analyse the internal structure of the translation and adaptation of the ASES scale by Chemers, Hu y García (2001). METHOD: 4950 Chilean university students participated. Additionally, to study the Equivalence/Invariance of Measurement between different groups of students, we have performed a factorial invariance …
Aportes a una etnografía de los movimientos feministas: Recursos expresivos en las marchas #Ni una menos y #8M en Santiago de Chile
The #Ni una menos and #8M marches were central to the Chilean feminist movement’s accumulation of power. In them, a wide repertoire of expressive resources was used aimed at building audiences and publicize the meaning of the denouncements. Based on fieldwork involving observation and photographic records of these political demonstrations (held in Santiago de Chile in 2017 and 2018), this work provides a description of the resources used, and a r…
Education, Birth Order and Family Size
This article introduces a framework to study parental investments in the presence of birth order preferences and/or human capital cost differentials across children. The framework yields canonical models as special cases and delivers sharp testable predictions concerning how parental investments respond to an exogenous change in family size in the presence of birth order effects. These predictions characterize a generalised quantity–quality trade…
Impacto de un programa de lectoescritura en el rendimiento académico de estudiantes de primer año universitario en Chile
En la última década, las instituciones de educación superior han desplegado una serie de programas para enseñar a leer y escribir en este nivel educativo; sin embargo, poco se conoce del efecto de estas iniciativas sobre el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes. El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar el impacto de uno de estos programas en el desempeño académico de estudiantes de primer año de Psicología que asistían a las sedes regio…
Violencia, complicidad e impunidad: Los actores económicos en la dictadura de Pinochet
Dynamic treatment effects of job training
This paper estimates the dynamic returns to job training. We posit a model of sequential training participation, where decisions and outcomes depend on observed and unobserved characteristics. We analyze different treatment effects, including policy relevant parameters, and link them to continuation values and latent skills. The empirical analysis exploits administrative data combining job training records, matched employee‐employer information, …
Protestar y peregrinar en Santiago de Chile. El caso de la animita de Mauricio Fredes durante la revuelta chilena
Animitas are artifacts of a popular religious practice present in Chile and other parts of the Andean world. They are built where someone meets death, far from home and the company of their loved ones. They are generally associated with tragic, bloody or violent deaths, as happened in Santiago de Chile during the social revolt with Mauricio Fredes, a young demonstrator who died in the center of the capital as a result of police repression. The an…
Does an Increasing Minimum Wage Reduce Formal Sector Employment? Evidence from Brazil
Between 2003 and 2012, Brazil’s real minimum wage increased by 62%. In this paper, we take advantage of matched employer-employee data and examine whether this increase resulted in negative impacts in the formal labor market. The empirical analysis is carried out at the local level. Our main identification strategy relies on geographical variation in the incidence of the minimum wage. We first document substantial heterogeneity in the incidence b…
What makes a program good? Evidence from short-cycle higher education programs in five developing countries
Economics (7 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)