Publications
Fertility and Population Health
Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth from Mothers and Fathers
(with Osea Giuntella and Giulia La Mattina)
Journal of Human Capital, forthcoming.
Natural Disasters and Early Human Development: Hurricane Catarina and Infant Health in Brazil
(with Ines Lee and Victor Hugo de Oliveira)
Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
On the Value of Birth Weight
(with Damian Clarke and Sonia Oreffice)
Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 2021, Vol. 83:1130–1159.
OPEN ACCESS.
The Demand for Season of Birth
(with Damian Clarke and Sonia Oreffice)
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, Vol. 34, No.5: 707–723.
OPEN ACCESS.
Zika virus incidence, preventive and reproductive behaviors: Correlates from new survey data
(with José Raimundo Carvalho and Victor Hugo de Oliveira)
Economics and Human Biology, 2018, No. 30: 14–23.
Son Preference and Gender-Biased Breastfeeding in Pakistan
(with Naima Hafeez)
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 2: 179–215.
[Lead article]
[Link to the paper][Supplementary materials]
The Hidden Costs of Terrorism: The Effects on Health at Birth
(with Pedro Ródenas-Serrano)
Journal of Health Economics, 2017, Vol. 56, 47–60.
[Link to the paper][Online Appendix]
The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina
(with Carlos Bozzoli)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, Vol. 96, No. 3: 550–562.
* Web Appendix: Supplementary Material
* Additional material: La evolución del peso al nacer en Argentina durante el período 1997-2009 (with Carlos Bozzoli and Federico Todeschini)
[Link to this note]
Early-Life Environment and Adult Stature in Brazil: An Analysis for Cohorts born between 1950 and 1980
(with Victor Hugo de Oliveira)
Economics and Human Biology, 2014, Vol. 15, No. 4: 67–80.
Infant Mortality and Adult Stature in Spain
(with Carlos Bozzoli and Mariano Bosch)
Social Science and Medicine, 2011, Vol. 72, No. 11: 1893–1903.
Physical Activity and Obesity in Spain: Evidence from the Spanish National Health Survey
(with Jaume Garcia and Sonia Oreffice)
The Economics of Sport, Health, and Happiness: The Promotion of Well-being through Sporting Activities, 2011. P. Rodriguez, S. Kesenne and B. Humphreys (Eds.), Chapter 3: 54–80. Series: New Horizons in the Economics of Sport. Edward Elgar.
[Link to the chapter]
Adult Height and Childhood Disease
(with Carlos Bozzoli and Angus Deaton)
Demography, 2009, Vol. 46, No. 4: 647–669.
[Lead article]
Income and Body Mass Index in Europe
(with Jaume Garcia)
Economics and Human Biology, 2009, Vol. 7, No. 1: 73–83.
Measurement
The Evolution of Adult Height across Spanish Regions, 1950-1980: A New Source of Data
(with Carlos Bozzoli and Mariano Bosch)
Economics and Human Biology, 2012, Vol. 10, No. 3: 264–275.
The Reliability of Self-reported Home Values in a Developing Country Context
(with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro)
Journal of Housing Economics, 2009, Vol. 18, No. 4: 311–324.
The Evolution of Adult Height in Europe: A Brief Note
(with Jaume Garcia)
Economics and Human Biology, 2007, Vol. 5, No. 2: 340–349.
Other Topics
Financial Contagion and Attention Allocation
(with Jordi Mondria)
Economic Journal, 2013, Vol. 123, No. 568: 429–454.
Policy Evaluation
The Effect of Increasing Women's Autonomy on Primary and Repeated Caesarean Sections in Brazil
(with Victor Hugo De Oliveira and Ines Lee)
Health Economics, 2022, Vol. 31, No. 8: 1800–1804.
OPEN ACCESS.
Paving the Streets for the Poor: Experimental Analysis of Infrastructure Effects
(with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, Vol. 98, No.2: 254–267.
* Web Appendix: Supplementary Material
* Additional material: Description of the Acayucan Standards of Living Survey (with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro)
[Link to this note]
Consumption
Relative Concerns for Consumption at the Top: An Intertemporal Analysis for the UK
(with Johannes Wohlfart)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, Vol. 129: 172–194.
Relative Concerns on Visible Consumption: A Source of Economic Distortions
(with Francesco Turino)
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2016, Vol. 16, No. 1: 33–45.
Matching in the Marriage Market
The effect of education on spousal education: a genetic approach
(with Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, and Sonia Oreffice)
Labour Economics, 2021, Vol. 71:102023
OPEN ACCESS.
Bidimensional Matching with Heterogeneous Preferences:
Education and Smoking in the Marriage Market
(with Pierre-André Chiappori and Sonia Oreffice)
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, Vol. 16, No. 1: 161–198.
[Link to the paper] [Supplementary material]
Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics
(with Pierre-André Chiappori and Sonia Oreffice)
Journal of Demographic Economics, 2016, Vol. 82, No. 4: 399–421.
[Invited submission]
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market
(with Pierre-André Chiappori and Sonia Oreffice)
Journal of Political Economy, 2012, Vol. 120, No. 4: 659–695.
Erratum: Journal of Political Economy, 2020: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/710838
Anthropometry and Socioeconomics among Couples: Evidence in the United States
(with Sonia Oreffice)
Economics and Human Biology, 2010, Vol. 8, No. 3: 373–384.
Wages and Labor Supply
Beauty, Body Size and Wages: Evidence from a Unique Data Set
(with Sonia Oreffice)
Economics and Human Biology, 2016, Vol. 22: 24–34.
Fat Spouses and Hours of Work: Are Body and Pareto Weights Correlated?
(with Sonia Oreffice)
IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1:6.
Preferences, Comparative Advantage, and Compensating Wage Differentials for Job Routinization
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2011, Vol. 73, No. 2: 207–229.
Obesity, Employment and Wages in Europe
(with Jaume Garcia)
Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, 2006. Vol. 17, The Economics of Obesity, K. Bolin and J. Cawley (Eds.), Chapter 8: 187–217. Elsevier, Emerald Group. [Link to the chapter]
Comments/Introductions
Angus Deaton: El Nobel de la Precisión (in Spanish)
Revista Española de Física, 2016, Vol. 30, No. 1: 37–39.
[Invited comment]
[Link to the comment]
Introduction to the special issue in honor of Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton: “consumption, poverty and inequality in the household”
Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, Vol. 15, No. 1: 1–3.