Research

Publications

• "Does College Selectivity Reduce Obesity? A Partial Identification Approach" , with Giorgio Brunello, Dimitris Christelis and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano,  Health Economics, 2024, 1-15

• "Sibling Differences in Genetic Propensity for Education: How do Parents React? (Job Market 2019 Paper), with Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics (Online Appendix HERE) 

• "Parental Human Capital Investment Responses to Children’s Disability", Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17(1)

• "Gender Norms in High School: Impacts from Adolescence to Adulthood", with Nuria Rodriguez-Planas and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 196, 429-456, 2022 

• "Not Only in My Genes: The Effects of Peers’ Genotype  on Obesity", with Giorgio Brunello and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Journal of Health Economics: 102349, 2020

• "Association of a Genetic Risk Score with BMI along the Life-Cycle: Evidence from several US Cohorts", with  Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Angie Upegui, PLoS ONE 15(9): e0239067, 2020

• "The labor market in Spain, 2002-2016" with Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano,  IZA World of Labor, 2017: 403

Working Papers

• "Fortunate Families? The Effects of Wealth on Marriage and Fertility", with David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist and Robert Ostling, NBER WP No.31039 and CEPR DP No.18000

Mentions: The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian

Blog Posts: nadaesgratis 

•  "How do Labels and Vouchers Shape Unconditional Cash Transfers? Experimental Evidence from Georgia", with Miguel Ángel Borrella-Mas and Jaime Millán-Quijano

• "Birds of a Feather Earn Together. Gender and Peer Effects at the Workplace", with Julian Messina and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, IZA DP No. 16721 

Policy Papers

• "Do public works programs foster climate resilience? Conceptual framework and review of empirical evidence" with Elisabetta Aurino, Francesco Burchi, Tekalign Sakketa. IEB WP 2024/12, 2024

• "Encouraging Women’s Economic Opportunities in Croatia : Empirical Evidence of Determinants and Policy Advice (English)” with Monica Robayo-Abril, Kristina Noelle Vaughan, Natalia Garcia Pena. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2020

• "Ex-ante Evaluation of the Impact of Increases in Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes in Kosovo" with  Monica Robayo and Stefanie Koettl-Brodmann, Policy Research working paper no. WPS 9357 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, 2020