Research

My research focuses in human capital accumulation. Some of my work is applied microeconomics, but other work uses a Macroeconomic approach to study these issues. Lately, I've been also working on financial networks, specifically brokers' networks and how they may impact financial performance.

Published Papers

“COVID-19 and employment relief programs: A tale of spatially blind policies for spatially driven pandemic” (with Patricio Aroca and Esteban Lopez), Journal of Regional Science, Vol 63, No 4, Sept 2023.
“Effects of Maternity on Labor Outcomes and Employment Quality for Women in Chile” (with Javier Fernandez and Catalina Lauer), Journal of Applied Economics, Vol 26, No 1, 2023.
``Diferencias en la Eleccion de Establecimiento Educacional para la Poblacion local e Inmigranes: Caso Chileno'', with Catalina Lauer, forthcoming Estudios Pedagogicos.
``Analyzing Stock Brokers' trading patterns: a network decomposition and spatial econometrics approach'' with Jose Arenas, Jaime Lavin and Alejandro Montecinos, Complexity, 2019.
``Health at Birth, Parental Investments and Academic Outcomes'', with Prashant Bharadwaj and Christopher Neilson, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol 36, No. 2, April 2018.
``A Network-Based Dynamic Analysis in an Equity Stock Market'' with Jaime Lavin and Alejandro Montecinos, Complexity, 2017.
``Estimating the effects of teen motherhood in Chile: a family fixed effect approach'' with Matias Berthelon and Diana Kruger, Estudios de Economia, Vol 44, No 1, June 2017