Research

Publications:

• The Effects of Educated Leaders on Policy and Politics: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brazil (with Paulo Bastos)
  Latin American Economic Review, Vol. 33, 2024

Working Papers:

• Equilibrium Consequences of Vouchers Under Simultaneous Extensive and Intensive Margins Competition
  Revision requested at Journal of Political Economy

• The Effects of For-Profit and Nonprofit Subsidized Schools on Academic Performance
  Revision requested at Economics of Education Review

• The Effects of Credit on Firms’ Performance: A Survey (with Ramiro de Elejalde and Brian Pustilnik)
  Submitted

• Equilibrium Effects of Immigrants on School Competition (with Faqiang Li, Diana Martínez and María Adelaida)

• Risk-Shifting Incentives Under Government Credit Guarantees (with Ramiro de Elejalde)

• Supply-Side Responses to Targeted Vouchers (with Gabriel Cañedo Riedel)
  Coverage: Development Impact

• The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Vouchers (with Tomás Rau and Sergio Urzúa)

• The Design of Vouchers and Schools’ Strategic Behavior: The Case of Chile

Work in Progress:

• Carrots and Sticks for Teacher Colleges: An Application for an Optimal Teacher Recruitment (with Adam Kapor and Christopher Neilson)

• Gender Wage Gap in the Teaching Profession (with Paola Bordón, Roberto Gillmore and Miguel Sarzosa)

• Increasing Capacity at Elite High Schools Under Centralized Assignment (with Arturo Aguilar, Adrián Martínez and Jorge Pérez)

• Unwinding Crisis Lending (with Lautaro Chittaro)

• Rising Markups in the Banking Industry (with Sofía Arrendondo)

• Comparative Analysis of Financing Mechanisms Using Combined Credit Registry and Transaction-Level Data (with Felipe Brugués, Rebecca De Simone and Patricio Toro)

• High Pay for High Performers in the Teaching Profession (with Jorge Méndez and Mauricio Romero)

• The Effects of Drug Cartel Presence on Education and Labor Market Outcomes (with Patricio Ramos)

• Inputs and the School Quality Effects of Targeted Vouchers (with Gabriel Cañedo Riedel)

• Price and Market Segmentation Consequences of Targeted Vouchers (with Gabriel Cañedo Riedel and Emiliano Ramírez)

• Are For-Profit Schools Worth Trying? Evidence Across Multiple Treatment Margins (with René Nieto)

• Relaxing Switching Costs through Pension Advisers (with Conrado Cuevas)

• Predicting Missing Geographic Coordinates (with Gabriel Cañedo Riedel)

• The Effects of an Information Intervention on Higher Education Decisions and Labor Market Outcomes

• To Profit or not to Profit? Evidence from Chile’s For-Profit Voucher Schools