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

    with  Francisco A. Gallego Oswaldo Molina

    Journal of Development Economics (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 (2024)

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

    with  Adam Kapor Mohit Karnani

    Journal of Political Economy (2024)

  • Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice

    with  Felipe Arteaga Adam Kapor Seth Zimmerman

    The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2022)

  • Centralized School Choice with Unequal Outside Options

    with  Mohammad Akbarpour Winnie van Dijk Adam Kapor Seth Zimmerman

    Journal of Public Economics (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 (2022)

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

    with  Adam Altmejd Andrés Barrios-Fernández Marin Drlje Joshua Goodman Michael Hurwitz Dejan Kovac Christine Mulhern Jonathan Smith

    Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021)

  • Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Assignment Mechanisms

    with  Adam Kapor Seth Zimmerman

    American Economic Review (2020)

  • Information Frictions and Access to the Paycheck Protection Program

    with  John Eric Humphries Gabriel Ulyssea

    Journal of Public Economics (2020)

  • Health at Birth, Parental Investments and Academic Outcomes

    with  Prashant Bharadwaj Juan Eberhard

    Journal of Labor Economics (2018)

  • 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 (2017)

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

    with  Justine Hastings Anely Ramirez Seth Zimmerman

    Economics of Education Review (2016)

  • The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Chile

    with  Prashant Bharadwaj Giacomo De Giorgi David Hansen

    Economic Development and Cultural Change (2016)

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

    with  Harald Beyer Justine Hastings Seth Zimmerman

    American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings (2015)

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

    with  Seth Zimmerman

    Journal of Public Economics (2014)

  • Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

    with  Prashant Bharadwaj Katrine Vellesen Løken

    American Economic Review (2013)

  • Chile`s Fiscal Rule as Social Insurance

    with  Eduardo Engel Rodrigo Valdes

    in Cespedes (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  José De Gregorio

    Pearson Education (2008)

  • Financial Diversification, Sudden Stops and Sudden Starts

    with  Kevin Cowan José De Gregorio Alejandro Micco

    in Cowan (2007)

  • Another Passthrough Bites the Dust? Inflation and Oil Prices

    with  José De Gregorio Oscar Landerretche

    Journal of LACEA (2007)

    Conditionally Accepted

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

    Cond. accepted with  Andrés Barrios-Fernández Seth Zimmerman

    American Economic Review (Conditionally Accepted)

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

    Cond. accepted

    Econometrica (Conditionally Accepted)