Welcome! I'm a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. My fields of interest are Public Economics and Labor Economics. I have a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina.
Before coming to Berkeley I worked at the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) and the Department of Economics (UNLP).
Working Papers
The Response of Salaried Workers to the Personal Income Tax: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Argentina
Slides
(with V. Castillo, G. Cruces), In progress
Presentations: RIDGE PF Workshop, PF Lunch Seminar, NTA Conference, Ministry of Labor, Zurich PF Conference, UNU-WIDER PF Conference
Measuring Imperfect Competition in Product and Labor Markets. An empirical analysis using firm-level production data
Slides
(with Roman D. Zarate), In progress
Presentations: Labor Lunch Seminar, Trade Lunch Seminar, CAF Symposium
Price controls, market power and inequality on consumption baskets: evidence from retail scanner data in Argentina
(with Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman), In progress
Investment in ICT, Productivity and Labor Demand. The Case of Argentina
(with Irene Brambilla), January 2018, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8325
Policy Papers
Anatomía del Impuesto a las Ganancias sobre los Asalariados: Argentina 2000-2016
December 2017
Pre-doctoral
Irene Brambilla and Dario Tortarolo (2015). "Growth in Labor Earnings Across the Income Distribution: Latin America During the 2000s", CEDLAS, Working Papers 182, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Irene Brambilla and Dario Tortarolo (2014). "An Empirical Analysis of Mark-ups in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector", Department of Economics, Working Papers 104, Departamento de Economía, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Dario Tortarolo (2013). "Female Labor Supply and Fertility. Causal Evidence for Latin America". CEDLAS, Working Papers 0166, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, November 2013.
Tortarolo, Dario and Malena Arcidiácono, "Measuring Poverty in Argentina: the Food Energy Intake Method". XLVII Annual Meeting of the Argentine Association of Political Economy, Trelew, Argentina, November 2012. ISSN 1852-0022. ISBN 978-987-28590-0-8.
Other Publications
Alberto Porto, Natalia Porto and Dario Tortarolo (2014) Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Integration in Mercosur: Argentina and Brazil, Latin American Business Review, 15:3-4, 225-252, DOI: 10.1080/10978526.2014.931787
Porto, Alberto; Porto, Natalia; Tortarolo, Dario (2014) "Glocalization" and decentralization. The role of local governments in the new international context, Urban Public Economics Review, num. 20, pp. 62-93.
Chapters in books
La Calidad de la Administracion Tributaria como Insumo de la Funcion de Produccion Recaudatoria (with A. Porto and W. Rosales), In Porto A. (editor), Temas de Economia de los Gobiernos Municipales, Buenos Aires: Ed. DUNKEN. 2012. ISBN: 978-987-02-6003-5.
University of California, Berkeley
ECON 131 (Public Economics), GSI Fall 2017, Prof. Alan Auerbach --- Syllabus
ECON 140 (Econometrics), GSI Fall 2016 ---
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ECON 140 (Econometrics), GSI Spring 2016
ECON 100A (Micro), GSI Fall 2015 ---
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
Labor Economics (graduate), TA in 2013 --- Website
Topics in Advanced Econometrics (graduate), TA in 2012 --- Syllabus 2013 Website
Microeconomics II (undergraduate), TA --- Syllabus 2013 Website
Econometrics I (undergraduate), TA --- Website
