Published and Accepted Papers
Digital Training for Microentrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala (with Martina Improta, Romina Ordonez, and Paul Winters), September 2023, World Bank Economic Review.
The Effects of Extortion and Security Device Adoption on Entrepreneurial Entry and Exit: Theory and Evidence from Guatemala (with Romina Ordonez), August 2025, Journal of Public Economics.
Hybrid Agricultural Extension and the Adoption of Climate-Resilient Varieties: Evidence from Oil Palm in the Amazon (with Romina Ordonez, Cristina Parilli, and Paul Winters), September 2025, Food Policy.
Women's Labor Force Participation, Family Planning Policies, and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Mexico, October 2025, Journal of Development Studies.
US Manufacturing Reallocation: Impacts on Mexican Labor Markets, January 2026, World Development Perspectives.
Working Papers
Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico (with Anne Brockmeyer, Karina Ramirez, and Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato), December 2025, Revised & Resubmitted to American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
From Meta-Analysis to Cost-Effectiveness at Scale: An Application to Digital Business Training (with Alvaro Montoya and Paul Winters), December 2025, Submitted.
Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban (with Roberto Gerhard, Joseph Kaboski, Ilenin Kondo, and Wei Qian), April 2026, Resubmitted to American Economic Review.
Work in Progress
Catholic College Education and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Mexico (with Clemens Sedmak, Julia Kowalski, and Paul Perrin).
Civic Education and Democratic Citizenship: A Multisite Randomized Intervention in Mexico and India (with Prabhat Barnwal, Erique Seira, and Alberto Simpser).
Algorithmic Credit Scoring and Financial Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Paraguay (with María Laura Lanzalot and Paul Winters).
Constraints to Women-Led Firm Growth: Evidence from a Business Training Program in Bolivia (with María Alejandra Barrientos Chávez and Patricia Yánez-Pagans).
Regression Discontinuity by Design: an Application to Agricultural Extension in Chile (with Daniela Castillo and Romina Ordonez).
The Impacts of Geographically Targeted Anti-Poverty Programs on Local Poverty and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Mexico (with Stephen Pitts).
Internal Organization and Productivity Within the Farm: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Peru (with Gabriela Aparicio-Linale and María Alejandra Barrientos Chávez).