Generando Evidencia para el Diseño de Políticas Públicas

Generando Evidencia para el Diseño de Políticas Públicas

¿Qué es MIPP?

El Instituto para la Investigación en Imperfecciones de Mercado y Políticas Públicas (MIPP) es un centro académico interdisciplinario que desarrolla investigación de excelencia sobre el funcionamiento de los mercados y el diseño de políticas públicas que promuevan mayor eficiencia, equidad y bienestar social.

Sus líneas de investigación incluyen Economía Política, Diseño y Regulación de Mercados, y Datos y Políticas Públicas, integrando enfoques analíticos rigurosos para comprender y enfrentar problemas complejos de interés público.

La producción científica de sus investigadores es difundida en reconocidas conferencias internacionales y publicada en algunas de las más prestigiosas revistas académicas en Economía, Ciencias Políticas y Administración, fortaleciendo el vínculo entre investigación de frontera y políticas públicas basadas en evidencia.

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Áreas de Investigación

Economía Política

Instituciones, comportamiento político y su impacto en el diseño y resultados de políticas públicas.

Diseño y Regulación de Mercados

Diseño de mercados e instituciones para promover eficiencia, competencia y bienestar.

Datos y Políticas Públicas

Análisis de datos y evidencia empírica para evaluar políticas públicas y comprender fenómenos económicos y sociales.

Iniciativas Destacadas

Programas e iniciativas que impulsan la investigación y la colaboración

Últimos Eventos

Seminarios, talleres y actividades organizadas por MIPP

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Why is the College Premium Falling? The Role of Composition

29 abr., 2026 Sala de Consejo, piso 4,...

Abstract: Recent studies suggest that the increasing supply of college-educated workers in Latin American countries has negatively impacted returns to skill over the last two decades, as evidenced by the decreasing college premium. In this paper, we show that changes in the college premium do not accurately represent shifts in returns to skill, particularly in the context of a significant expansion in tertiary education. Using novel data with approximately one million college graduates from 20 different cohorts in Brazil, we find that returns to skill have not decreased; in fact, they increased by 24% over 16 years. The supply of college-educated workers has grown, primarily from newer, lower-ranked, and lower-wage-premium universities. Changes in the composition of college workers seem to have driven a decrease in the college premium, even though returns to skill are increasing. Using a simple supply and demand framework (Katz and Murphy, 1992) we show that skill-biased technical change (SBTC) increased by 3% per year over a 12-year period, in contrast to the apparent-0.1% yearly decrease indicated by the unadjusted data.

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Is There a «Scarlet E? The Effects of Public Eviction Records on Low-Income Households

22 abr., 2026 Sala de Consejo, piso 4,...

Abstract: Housing advocates, media outlets, and policymakers have long argued that a public eviction filing record—often referred to as the “Scarlet E”—carries significant consequences, particularly for low-income households. In this paper, we exploit variation induced by a record-sealing policy in Illinois to provide the first causal estimates of the effect of a public eviction filing on residential mobility, neighborhood quality, homelessness, and financial health. Two findings stand out: (i) sealing eviction records at the time of filing prevents tenant screening companies from accessing case information, whereas retroactive record sealing is ineffective in restricting public access; (ii) tenants with public evictions records are more likely to live doubled up with friends or family within the first year of the filing. Our results suggest that housing instability due to public eviction filings manifests primarily through household doubling up rather than through the more extreme forms of homelessness.

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Beyond Beliefs: Experimental Evidence on Follow-Through Frictions at School Transitions

14 abr., 2026 Sala de Consejo, piso 4,...

Abstract: A key puzzle in economics is why households underinvest in education despite high returns. While standard explanations focus on information, this paper highlights the role of follow-through frictions in a school-level RCT in 231 primary schools in Quiché, Guatemala. We document a substantive intention-action gap: 65% of students plan to enroll in secondary school yet 34% of those fail to follow-through on their plans. To causally isolate the effect of follow-through frictions, we randomly assign schools to a pure control, an information treatment, and a mentoring treatment that delivers identical informational content, along with follow-through support comprising classroom based socio-motional skill-building and personalized educational counseling. Information provision has no effect on enrollment. Mentoring increases enrollment by 8.4 percentage points (18%) relative to information, with larger effects among students who already planned to enroll. The evidence points to socio-emotional skills as the operative channel in how mentoring helped improve follow-through.

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Investigadores de excelencia de las principales universidades de Chile

Damian Clarke

Damian Clarke

Universidad de Santiago

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José Correa

José Correa

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Alejandro Corvalán

Alejandro Corvalán

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Juan Escobar

Juan Escobar

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