Germán Reyes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6788453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Germán Reyes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Germán |
| FAMILY NAME | Reyes |
| SIGNATURE | REYES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9613-696X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University
We examine the effects of an affirmative action policy at an elite Brazilian university that reserved 45% of admission slots for Black and low-income students. We find that marginally admitted students who enrolled through the affirmative action tracks experienced a 14% increase in early-career earnings. But the adoption of affirmative action also caused a large decrease in earnings for the university’s most highly ranked students. We present evi…
Coarse Wage-Setting and Behavioral Firms
This paper shows that the bunching of wages at round numbers is partly driven by firm coarse wage-setting. Using data from over 200 million new hires in Brazil, I first establish that contracted salaries tend to cluster at round numbers. Then, I show that firms that tend to hire workers at round-numbered salaries have worse market outcomes. Next, I develop a wage-posting model in which optimization costs lead to the adoption of coarse rounded wag…
Are fairness perceptions shaped by income inequality? evidence from Latin America
How is the Slowdown Affecting Households in Latin America and the Caribbean?
This paper shows evidence that suggests the economic slowdown in Latin America and the Caribbean has already translated into slowing social gains, including decelerating poverty reduction, stagnating growth of the middle class, and lower income growth. The countries of South America outperformed Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in poverty reduction during the decade up to 2012. But since then, a new story has emerged. In recent years, p…
Perceptions of Distributive Justice in Latin America during a Period of Falling Inequality
The transport sector offers limited \n options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as compared with \n other sectors, such as power generation and industrial \n sectors. To understand the potential reduction of energy \n consumption and associated emissions through fuel \n substitution or transportation service demand reduction, \n this study estimates own- and cross-price elasticities of \n various fuels used for transportation. The analysis show…
How is the Slowdown Affecting Households in Latin America and the Caribbean?
This paper shows evidence that suggests the economic slowdown in Latin America and the Caribbean has already translated into slowing social gains, including decelerating poverty reduction, stagnating growth of the middle class, and lower income growth. The countries of South America outperformed Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in poverty reduction during the decade up to 2012. But since then, a new story has emerged. In recent years, p…
Perceptions of Distributive Justice in Latin America during a Period of Falling Inequality
The transport sector offers limited \n options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as compared with \n other sectors, such as power generation and industrial \n sectors. To understand the potential reduction of energy \n consumption and associated emissions through fuel \n substitution or transportation service demand reduction, \n this study estimates own- and cross-price elasticities of \n various fuels used for transportation. The analysis show…
Are fairness perceptions shaped by income inequality? evidence from Latin America
Coarse Wage-Setting and Behavioral Firms
This paper shows that the bunching of wages at round numbers is partly driven by firm coarse wage-setting. Using data from over 200 million new hires in Brazil, I first establish that contracted salaries tend to cluster at round numbers. Then, I show that firms that tend to hire workers at round-numbered salaries have worse market outcomes. Next, I develop a wage-posting model in which optimization costs lead to the adoption of coarse rounded wag…
The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University
We examine the effects of an affirmative action policy at an elite Brazilian university that reserved 45% of admission slots for Black and low-income students. We find that marginally admitted students who enrolled through the affirmative action tracks experienced a 14% increase in early-career earnings. But the adoption of affirmative action also caused a large decrease in earnings for the university’s most highly ranked students. We present evi…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic inequality (2 works) · Income distribution (2 works)