We are proud to announce that two principal investigators of the Millennium Nucleus MIGRA, Raimundo Undurraga and Pablo Muñoz Henríquez, have recently been awarded FONDECYT Regular grants. These awards reinforce MIGRA’s commitment to producing cutting-edge research on migration, public policy, and inequality.
Raimundo Undurraga, Director of MIGRA and Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Chile, will lead the project “The Immigrants and the State: Bureaucratic Bias in Social Program Access.” This research explores how public officials’ beliefs and preferences may affect the inclusion of migrants in social programs, with a focus on Chile’s Programa Familias, implemented by the Ministry of Social Development and FOSIS. The project combines causal analysis and experimental methods to evaluate interventions aimed at reducing bias against migrants in the public sector.
Pablo Muñoz, Principal Investigator at MIGRA and Professor at the Department of Economics at Universidad de Chile, will lead the project “Optimal Labor Inspections,” which seeks to optimize labor inspection strategies through economic theory, data science, and experimental evidence. One of the key objectives of this project is to assess how migration and outsourcing influence labor violations, and how inspections can be targeted to generate greater social impact.
These grants reflect the research excellence of the MIGRA team and its ongoing commitment to generating rigorous evidence to inform the design and implementation of more equitable and inclusive public policie
Our work is important, so we appreciate it if you cite the use of the code and figures available in this repository.
MIGRA, N. (2024). MIGRA Repository (Version 2.0.4) [Computer software].
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