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Marcelo Bergolo
Marcelo Bergolo
Research Fellow
IECON, Universidad de la República
marcelo.bergolo@fcea.edu.uy External Homepage CV

Marcelo Bergolo is a Professor of Economics at the Instituto de Economia (IECON), Department of Economics, Universidad de La República, Uruguay. He obtained his PhD in Economics in October 2014 from Universidad de La Plata, Argentina. Prior to starting his PhD, he worked at the Center for Distributive, Labor, and Social Studies (CEDLAS), where he is currently a Research Fellow. He is also a research affiliate/associate (NIVEL 2) at the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) - Uruguay.

His research interests are Public Economics, Labor Economics, and Development Economics. His work focuses on tax and transfer policies in developing countries from an empirical perspective.

Marcelo joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in May 2016 and became IZA Fellow in November 2021.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18387
What Makes a Tax Evader?
Marcelo Bergolo, Martin Leites, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Matías Strehl-Pessina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18057
Beyond Income: Understanding Preferences for Redistribution Among the Top 1%
Matías Strehl-Pessina, Marcelo Bergolo, Martin Leites
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14828
Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences
Marcelo Bergolo, Gabriel Burdin, Santiago Burone, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso, Martin Leites
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 200, 782-802
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12335
Tax Audits as Scarecrows. Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso, Ricardo Perez-Truglia
published in: American Economic Journal, 2023, 15 (1), 110 - 153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12286
Tax Bunching at the Kink in the Presence of Low Capacity of Enforcement: Evidence from Uruguay
Marcelo Bergolo, Gabriel Burdin, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso, Martin Leites
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (639), 2726 - 2762.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10342
Labor-Market Scars When Youth Unemployment Is Extremely High: Evidence from Macedonia
Marjan Petreski, Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski, Marcelo Bergolo
published in: Eastern European Economics, 2017, 55 (2), 168 - 196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10310
Intra-Household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Marcelo Bergolo, Estefania Galvan
published in: World Development, 2018, 103, 100 - 118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10197
The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance When Informal Employment Is High
Marcelo Bergolo, Guillermo Cruces
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8198
Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension
Marcelo Bergolo, Guillermo Cruces
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 211-228
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