Research

Papers & Work in Progress

    Published Articles

  • Lights, Camera, School: Information Provision through Television during COVID-19 Times

    with Francisco A. Gallego , Oswaldo Molina

    Journal of Development Economics (March 2025)

  • Report Cards: Parental Preferences, Information and School Choice in Haiti

    with Michael Borger , Gregory Elacqua , Isabel Jacas , Christopher Neilson , Anne Sofie Westh Olsen

    Education Economics Review (October 2024)

  • Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms

    with Adam Kapor , Mohit Karnani

    Journal of Political Economy (July 2024)

  • Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice

    with Felipe Arteaga , Adam Kapor , Seth Zimmerman

    The Quarterly Journal of Economics (March 2022)

  • Centralized School Choice with Unequal Outside Options

    with Mohammad Akbarpour , Adam Kapor , Winnie van Dijk , Seth Zimmerman

    Journal of Public Economics (June 2022)

  • Small Firms and the Pandemic: Evidence From Latin America

    with Maria Elena Guerrero , John Eric Humphries , Naomi Shimberg , Gabriel Ulyssea

    Journal of Development Economics (March 2022)

  • O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries

    with Adam Altmejd , Andr??s Barrios-Fern??ndez , Marin Drlje , Joshua Goodman , Michael Hurwitz , Dejan Kovac , Christine Mulhern , Jonathan Smith

    Quarterly Journal of Economics (August 2021)

  • Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Assignment Mechanisms

    with Adam Kapor , Seth Zimmerman

    American Economic Review, Vol. 110, No. 5, May 2020 (pp. 1274-1315)

  • Information Frictions and Access to the Paycheck Protection Program

    with John Eric Humphries , Gabriel Ulyssea

    Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 190, October 2020, (pp. 104244)

  • Health at Birth, Parental Investments and Academic Outcomes

    with Prashant Bharadwaj , Juan Eberhard

    Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 36, No 2, April 2018, (pp. 349-394)

  • Grey Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation

    with Prashant Bharadwaj , Matthew Gibson , Joshua Graff Zivin

    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2017, (pp. 505-542)

  • (Un)informed College and Major Choice: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

    with Justine Hastings , Anely Ramirez , Seth Zimmerman

    Economics of Education Review, Access to Higher Education, Vol. 51, April 2016, (pp. 136-151)

  • The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Chile

    with Prashant Bharadwaj , Giacomo De Giorgi , David Hansen

    Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 65, No. 1, October 2016, (pp. 141-166)

  • Connecting Student Loans to Labor Market Outcomes: Policy Lessons from Chile

    with Harald Beyer , Justine Hastings , Seth Zimmerman

    American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5, May 2015 (pp. 508???513)

  • The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices

    with Seth Zimmerman

    Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 120, December 2014, (pp. 18-31)

  • Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

    with Prashant Bharadwaj , Katrine Vellesen L??ken

    American Economic Review, Vol. 103, No. 5, August 2013, (pp. 1862-91)

  • Chile`s Fiscal Rule as Social Insurance

    with Eduardo Engel , Rodrigo Valdes

    in Cespedes, L., F. and J. Gali (eds.), Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Performance (2013)

  • Crecimiento Pro Pobre en Chile

    with Dante Contreras , Ryan Cooper

    El Trimestre Economico (2008)

  • Poverty Dynamics in Chile 1996-2001

    with Dante Contreras , Ryan Cooper , Jorge Herman

    Journal of Latin American Studies (2008)

  • Solutions Manual for "Macroeconomia: Teoria y Politica"

    with Jos?? De Gregorio

    Pearson Education

  • Financial Diversification, Sudden Stops and Sudden Starts

    with Jos?? De Gregorio , Kevin Cowan , Alejandro Micco

    in Cowan, K., S. Edwards, and R. Valdes (eds.), Current Account and External Finance (2007)

  • Another Passthrough Bites the Dust? Inflation and Oil Prices

    with Jos?? De Gregorio , Oscar Landerretche

    Journal of LACEA (2007)

    Conditionally Accepted

  • Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital

    Cond. accepted with Andr??s Barrios-Fern??ndez , Seth Zimmerman ?? American Economic Review (Conditionally Accepted)

  • Targeted Vouchers, Competition Among Schools and the Academic Achievement of Poor Students

    Cond. accepted Econometrica (Conditionally Accepted)