PUBLICATIONS:
Journals:
Flores-Arenas, B., Ortiz-Ruiz, F. Care Penalty on Labor Market Outcomes in Chile: A Longitudinal Analysis by Gender. Journal of Family and Economic Issues (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-025-10046-8
Flores-Arenas, B. A. ., Inostroza-Correa, M. A. (2025). Ciclo de vida, cuidados e informalidad laboral en Chile, 2017-2022. Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales, (82), 53–76. https://doi.org/10.17141/iconos.82.2025.6388
Flores-Arenas, B. (2021). La importancia de las interacciones entre vecinos con lazos sociales débiles para incrementar la participación laboral femenina en Chile. Estudios Públicos , (163), 7-47. https://doi.org/10.38178/07183089/1148201210
Flores-Arenas, B., Rodríguez, P. (2021). “Fallas en el mercado de medicamentos genéricos en Chile y recomendaciones para mejorar la competencia”. Notas Técnicas IADB No. 2414, 1-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003979
Agostini, C., Martínez, C., Flores-Arenas, B. (2012). Distributional effects of eliminating the differential tax treatment of business and personal income in Chile. Cepal Review, (108), 175-201. https://doi.org/10.18356/8a1bcd9d-en
Books:
Sepúlveda, D., Mendoza, M., Ortiz, F., Flores, B. (Eds.) (2024). Feminismos y ciencias sociales en Chile: voces desde sus participantes. COES, Santiago. https://osf.io/678qv
Flores, B., Reyes-Housholder, C., Jiménez-Moya, G., Carvacho, H., Jirón, P. (Eds.) (2023). Tejiendo Rutas: Perspectivas para un Chile con Equidad de Género. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Santiago.
Book chapters:
Inostroza, M.A., Flores, B., Eberhard, J., Miranda, P., y Hutt, T. (2025). Subsidios de formalización laboral femenina: una propuesta de rediseño para aumentar coberturas en el ecosistema beneficiario. En: Centro de Políticas Públicas UC (Ed.) (2025). Propuestas para Chile. Concurso Políticas Públicas 2024. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 228-264.
Flores, B., Sepúlveda, D., Mendoza, M., Ortiz, F. (2024). Producción académica feminista en las escuelas de sociología de Chile. En: Sepúlveda, D., Mendoza, M., Ortiz, F., Flores, B. (Eds.) (2024). Feminismos y ciencias sociales en Chile: voces desde sus participantes. COES, Santiago. https://osf.io/678qv
Flores, B., & Ortiz, F. (2023). Cuidados y participación laboral: un análisis diferenciado por género. En: Flores, B., Reyes-Housholder, C., Jiménez-Moya, G., Carvacho, H., Jirón, P. (Eds.) (2023). Tejiendo Rutas: Perspectivas para un Chile con Equidad de Género, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Santiago.
Carvacho, H., Flores, B., Jiménez-Moya, G., Jirón, P., Olivares, F., Reyes-Housholder, C. (2023). Desafíos actuales para la equidad de género en Chile. En: Flores, B., Reyes-Housholder, C., Jiménez-Moya, G., Carvacho, H., Jirón, P. (Eds.) (2023). Tejiendo Rutas: Perspectivas para un Chile con Equidad de Género. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Santiago.
Cardini, A., Cueto, S., Flores, B. and González, J. (2018). Financing Quality and Equitable Education in LATAM. In Cardini, A. (Ed.) Bridges to the future of education: policy recommendations for the digital age. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Santillana.
Policy briefs:
Cardini, A., Cueto, S., Flores, B. and González, J. (2018). A new deal to finance LATAM education: Promoting the right level and distribution of resources to increase quality and equity. Global Solutions Journal, vol. I, issue 3, p. 46-53.
Working papers:
Flores, B. (2021). The role of social interactions and strength of ties to increase labor participation among women with low education levels in Chile. Series Documentos de Trabajo, Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Chile, No. 517, pp. 1 - 48, abril, 2021
Flores, B. (2021). Brechas de género en el ciclo de vida. Memoria de taller de lectura “Diálogos sobre igualdad y brechas de género” de la Agenda Género de COES. Serie Documentos de Trabajo COES, Documento de trabajo N°46, pp. 1-54.
Flores, B. (2020). Estimating the effects of school subsidies targeted at low-income students: Evidence from Chile. Series Documentos de Trabajo, Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Chile, No. 510, pp. 1 - 52, diciembre, 2020
RESEARCH PAPERS:
“Spillovers in social program participation: Evidence from Chile” with Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso, Rita Ginja, Aureo De Paula and Lucy Kraftman.
We analyse how peers affect the participation in a family allowance for poor families in Chile called Subsidio Unico Familiar (SUF) using a regression discontinuity design. To identify this spillover efect, we exploit variation in the information about social programs due to a home-visitation program for families in extreme poverty introduced in 2002 called Chile Solidario (CS). Conditional on an index of wealth, eligibility to receive the home-visits are random around municipality level cutoffs. We find that individual participation in CS increases the take-up of SUF by 30% and neighbours' participation in CS also increases the take-up of SUF by 7%. We also study heterogeneity by proximity to the municipality's office given that the distance between households and the municipality office might be a measure of participation costs. Effectively, we find positive direct effect of CS (33%) and spillover effects (9%) on the take up of SUF only for those families who are distant to the office, suggesting that neighbours are an important channel of information transmission
“Heterogeneous quality in delivery of welfare: Evidence from social workers in the Chile Solidario Program” with Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso, Rita Ginja, and Lucy Kraftman.
Social workers are often the responsible to be in contact with the poor and to put in practice many social assistance programmes. In this paper we quantify the differences across the quality of social workers, and study the implications of these estimates for their optimal across families. To do so, we use data from a two years home visitation programme for poor in Chile, where social workers were (quasi) randomly assigned across families. We start by estimating the social workers effects, that reveal substantial heterogeneity in the value-added by social workers. Second, we find that within social worker there is heterogeneity in performance. For example, a higher value added in the work domain weakly correlates with the higher valued added in the domains of education and housing. Third, we find a weak correlation between the supervisors and own social worker evaluation and her estimated value added. Finally, a high value added social worker has an impact which lasts up to four years after the home-visitation programme.