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Miguel Sarzosa

MITRE Corporation
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Bullying among adolescents: The role of skills

M Sarzosa, S Urzúa - Quantitative economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bullying cannot be tolerated as a normal social behavior portraying a child's life. This paper
quantifies its negative consequences allowing for the possibility that victims and nonvictims …

Bullying among adolescents: The role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

M Sarzosa, S Urzúa - 2015 - nber.org
Bullying is a behavioral phenomenon that has received increasing attention in recent times.
This paper uses a structural model with latent skills and longitudinal information from Korean …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of disruptive peers in endogenous social networks

T Santavirta, M Sarzosa - 2019 - tsantavirta.com
This study uses sociometric data to show that social connections in the classroom shape the
diffusion of the negative externalities on cognitive achievement generated by abused and …

Beyond qualifications: returns to cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Colombia

P Acosta, N Muller, MA Sarzosa - World Bank Policy Research …, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the relationship between individuals? skills and labor market
outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia? s urban areas. Using a 2012 unique …

Returns to higher education in Chile and Colombia

In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a
dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from …

Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Disparities

M Sarzosa - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper assesses labor market disparities against sexual minorities. My empirical strategy
allows schooling, employment, and income to be endogenously determined relying on the …

Cognitive and non-cognitive skills for the Peruvian labor market: Addressing measurement error through latent skills estimations

…, M Torrado, M Sarzosa - World Bank Policy …, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
Evidence from developed country data suggests that cognitive and non-cognitive skills
contribute to improved labor market outcomes. This paper tests this hypothesis in a developing …

The children of the missed pill

T Rau, M Sarzosa, S Urzúa - Journal of health economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We assess the impact of exogenous variation in oral contraceptives prices—a year-long decline
followed by a sharp increase due to a documented collusion case—on fertility decisions …

Unintended consequences of free college: Self-selection into the teaching profession

R Castro-Zarzur, R Espinoza, M Sarzosa - Economics of Education Review, 2022 - Elsevier
Teacher quality is one of the most relevant factors influencing student learning. However,
attracting and retaining skilled people to the teaching profession is challenging. In this paper, …

[PDF][PDF] Adults' cognitive and socioemotional skills and their labor market outcomes in Colombia

P Acosta, N Muller, M Sarzosa - Revista de economía del Rosario, 2020 - redalyc.org
Previous research has shown that people with higher cognitive skills (mental abilities) and
socioemotional skills (behaviors and personality) get better labor market outcomes. It is …