Research
1) Early Childhood Development
"Impacts of a Large-Scale Parenting Program: Experimental Evidence from Chile", Forthcoming at Journal of Political Economy (2023); joint with Pedro Carneiro (UCL), Emanuela Galasso (World Bank), Miguel Cordero (U Bristol) and Paula Bedregal (PUC).
"Father involvement and early child development in a low-resource setting", Social Science and Medicine (2022); joint with Jill Luoto (USC), Lia C. H. Fernald (UC Berkeley) and Frances Aboud (Mc Gill University).
"Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income", Journal of Political Economy (2021); joint with Pedro Carneiro (UCL), Kjell Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics) and Emma Tominey (York University)
"Cost-effectiveness and economic returns of group-based parenting interventions to promote early childhood development: Results from a randomized controlled trial in rural Kenya", PLOS Medicine (2021); joint with Jill Luoto (USC) and Uzaib Saya (RAND)
"Group-based parenting interventions to promote child development in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomized effectiveness trial", The Lancet Global Health (2020); joint with Jill Luoto (USC), Frances Aboud (Mc Gill University), Daisy Singla (University of Toronto), Lia C. H. Fernald (UC Berkeley), Helen Pitchik (UC Berkeley), Uzaib Saya (RAND), Ronald Otieno (SWAP-Kenya), and Edith Alu (SWAP-Kenya)
"An Implementation Evaluation of A Group-Based Parenting Intervention to Promote Early Childhood Development in Rural Kenya" Frontiers of Public Health (2020); joint with Jill Luoto (USC), Frances Aboud (Mc Gill University), Daisy Singla (University of Toronto). Lia C. H. Fernald (UC Berkeley).
Working Papers
"Group Meetings and Boosters to Sustain Early Impacts on Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Kenya", IZA Discussion Papers 16392 (2023); joint with Jill Luoto (USC), Frances Aboud (Mc Gill University), Lia C. H. Fernald (UC Berkeley),
"Estimating the Production Function of Children's Development: Evidence from Early and Medium-term Impacts of a Group-based Parenting Intervention in Kenya"; joint with Jill Luoto (USC), Helen Pitchik (UC Berkeley) and Lia C. H. Fernald (UC Berkeley).
2) Labor and Health Among Aging Adults
"A Dynamic Behavioral Model of Korean Saving, Work, and Retirement Decisions", Journal of Economics of Ageing (2021); joint with David Knapp (RAND), Krishna Kumar (RAND) and Jinkook Lee (USC)
Working Papers
"The Changing Nature of Work and Work Capacity", (Draft October 2023) Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center Working Paper; joint with Nicole Maestas (Harvard Medical School) and Kathleen Mullen (Oregon U).
"Health Capacity to Work and Retirement Expectations", (Draft May 2023) Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center Working Paper; joint with Nicole Maestas (Harvard Medical School) and Kathleen Mullen (Oregon U).
"Human Capital and Labor Informality in Chile: A life-cycle approach", Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Human Capital (2022)
"The Role of Physical, Cognitive, and Interpersonal Occupational Requirements and Working Conditions on Disability and Retirement", Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center Working Paper (2022); joint with Kathleen Mullen (Oregon U) and Jeff Wenger (RAND).
"Heterogeneous Effects of Retirement and Cognition: A Life-cycle Model of Retirement, Job Demands, Cognitive Health Investments and Cognitive Capital" ; joint with Kathleen Mullen (Oregon U), Jeff Wenger (RAND) and Ah Reum Lee (RAND).
"Willingness to Pay for Long-term Care Insurance", joint with Michael Hurd (RAND) and Susann Rohwedder (RAND).
3) Other Papers
"Exploring the Social Security Benefit Implications of Same-Sex Marriage", SocArXiv papers (2021), joint with Michael Pollard (RAND)