Research

Publications:

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

Working Papers:

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

• 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 Effects of For-Profit and Nonprofit Schools on Academic Performance: Evidence from Chile

Work in Progress:

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

• Risk-shifting Incentives Under Government Credit Guarantees
  (with Ramiro de Elejalde and Patricio Toro)

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

• 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)

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

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

• Predicting Missing Geographic Coordinates
  (with Gabriel Cañedo Riedel)

• Gender Wage Gap in the Teaching Profession: Evidence from Two Countries
  (with Paola Bordón, Roberto Gillmore and Miguel Sarzosa)